
doi: 10.1063/1.1691789
The governing equations of compressible relativistic flow are cast in a form suitable for treating the subsonic, transonic, and supersonic regimes by established aerodynamic techniques. Small disturbance solutions are found which are the relativistic generalizations of the well-known aerodynamic laws for these flows. A comparison of present results with the nonrelativistic solutions for pressure coefficient shows significant compressible-relativistic effects for all three flow regimes. In the supersonic regime, the character of the variation of pressure coefficient with Mach number is quite different for the relativistic and nonrelativistic cases. The ultrarelativistic case is found to represent the limit of the compressible-relativistic effect in the three flow regimes.
fluid mechanics
fluid mechanics
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