Abstract: The method of characteristics is used to generate supersonic wall contours for two-dimensional, straight sonic line (SSL) and curved sonic line (CSL) minimum length nozzles for exit Mach numbers ...

Abstract: A second-order accurate method-of-characteristics algorithm is used to determine the flow field and wall contour for a supersonic, axisymmetric, minimum length nozzle with a straight sonic line. ...

Abstract: Recently, dense gases have been investigated for many engineering applications such as for turbomachinery and wind tunnels. Supersonic nozzle design can be complicated by nonclassical dense-gas ...