Abstract: The perturbation theory for transonic flow is further developed for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in two dimensions or for experimental results. The strained coordinate technique is ...

Abstract: The mechanism that locates a shock wave in a transonic flow in one and two dimensions is examined. It is found that in one dimension the shock is located by specifying the downstream pressure ...

Abstract: A method for the rapid estimation of complete unsteady transonic pressure distributions is developed. The two key elements of this method are (1) the indicial method and (2) the strained ...

Abstract: The validity of the commonly used transonic potential equation for flows with shock waves is examined. It is concluded that in such cases the potential formulation is inconsistent with the ...