Index

A

Acceleration of gravity., see Gravitational acceleration
Adiabatic pressure-volume curve, approximation to, 93–96, 147–155
Aeronautical power plant, 297
Air
accommodation coefficients for, 415, 416
mean free path of, 408
properties of, 460
turbulation of functions of, 460–468
Airfoils
Joukowsky airfoil at zero angle of attack, Tschapligin’s transformation to, 55–61
in slightly supersonic flow, 539–553
asymmetric wedge airfoil, 549–553
flat plate airfoil, 546–548
oblique shock, 540–545
Prandtl-Meyer expansion, 545–546
symmetrical Joukowsky airfoils, in shear flow, 236–252
thin airfoil problem, failure of PLK method in, 839–841
Airy’s stress function, 167
Amplitude of waves and average compression stress, relation between, 172–175
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