Homework Assignments

ME 4330/6330 Compressible Fluid Flow

WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

All problems are worth 10 points apiece. If specific parts of the problems are listed, just do those parts. For example
1-8a,b means to do only parts a and b and not part c. If just the problem number is listed, for example 1.8, do the
entire problem. For example 1-8 means do parts a, b, c, d, e, and f.

Homework #6
Assigned 03/13/17
Due 03/20/17

Required problems for ME4330 & ME6330

1. A supersonic stream at M 1=3.6 flows past a compression corner with a deflection angle of 20° . The
incident shock wave is reflected from an opposite wall which is parallel to the upstream supersonic flow, as
sketched in the Fig. 4.18 in the Textbook. Calculate the angle of the reflected shock relative to the straight
wall. (Anderson 4.6, Answer: ϕ=24.5 °)

Solution:
2. In incident shock wave with wave angle ¿ 30 ° impinges on a straight wall. If the upstream flow properties
are M 1=2.8, p1=1 atm, and T 1=300 K , calculate the pressure, temperature, Mach number, and total
pressure downstream of the reflected wave. (Anderson 4.7, Answer: M 3=1.87 , p3=3.956 atm,
T 3=453.3 ° K , po 3=25.1 atm)
Solution:
3. Consider a streamline with the properties M 1=4.0, and p1=1 atm. Consider also the following two
different shock structures encountered by such a streamline: (a) a single normal shock wave, and (b) an
oblique shock with β=40° , followed by a normal shock. Calculate and compare the total pressure behind
the shock structure of each (a) and (b) above. From this comparison, can you deduce a general principle
concerning the efficiency of a single normal shock in relation to an oblique shock plus normal shock in
decelerating a supersonic flow to subsonic speeds (which, for example, is the purpose of an inlet of a
conventional jet engine)? (Anderson 4.8 Answer: po 2=21.07 atm , p03=46.93 atm)
Solution:
Required problems for ME6330
4. Consider the intersection of two shocks of opposite families, as sketched in Fig. 4.23. ForM 1=3.0, and
p1=1 atm , θ2=20 ° , and θ3 =15° , calculate the pressure in regions 4 and 4’, and the flow direction ϕ ,
behind the refracted shocks. (Answer: p4 =8.3 atm , ϕ =4.5° )
Solution: