Compressible Flows

MAE 250C Compressible Flows (Instructor: Spearrin, M.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours.

Requisites: courses 150A, 150B.

Effects of compressibility in viscous and inviscid flows.

Steady and unsteady inviscid subsonic and supersonic flows; method of characteristics; small disturbance theories (linearized and hypersonic); shock dynamics.

Letter grading.