ME 221: Fluid Mechanics II

Instructor

Dr. Atul K. Soti

Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Section3: Compressible flows

Lecture 23: Normal Shocks part 3
 Mach Number relations
• The pressure ration in terms of upstream Mach number is

• We saw that pressure ratio and upstream Mach numbers are

always greater than one across a shock, therefore for a shock

• Since must be supersonic

• Thus a normal shock wave decelerates a flow almost

discontinuously from supersonic to subsonic conditions..

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 Mach Number relations
• The pressure ration in terms of upstream Mach number is

• The ratio of downstream and upstream temperatures

• Consider the term in the denominator

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 Mach Number relations

• The temperature ration in terms of upstream Mach number is

• Now using the ideal gas equation

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 Mach Number relations

• From continuity equation

• The stagnation pressure ratio can be found as follows

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 Mach Number relations

• Since

• The critical area ratio

• Since .

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Mach Number relations

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