Gasdynamic Discontinuities / / Wallace Dean Hayes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Hayes, Wallace Dean,
• MitwirkendeR: Hayes, Wallace D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1960
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1875
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (78 p.)

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Section D. The Basic Theory of Gasdynamic Discontinuities -- 1. Basic Relations in a Normal Discontinuity -- 2. The Normal Shock Wave -- 3. Exothermic Discontinuities -- 4. Internal Stability Considerations -- 5. Navier-Stokes Shock Structure -- 6. Navier-Stokes Structure of Exothermic Discontinuities -- 7. The Physics of Shock Waves -- 8. Cited References