Transonic thermal blooming

According to the linearized solutions for thermal blooming, the density perturbations become infinite (i.e. "catastrophic" defocusing) as the Mach number approaches unity. However, the nonlinearities in the transonic equations cutoff the trend to infinity, and the values of the flow pertur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carey, Edwin Fenton
Other Authors: Fuhs, A.E.
Language:en_US
Published: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6689