Assignment I: AE 650 Fundamentals of Aerospace Propulsion

Instructor: Sathesh Mariappan January 13, 2014

Derive the following expression between the stagnation and critical states. ( a a0 )2 = T 2 = T0 +1 ( )/(1) 2 p = p0 +1 ( )1/(1) 2 = 0 +1

(1) (2) (3)

Relation between the local and characteristic Mach numbers M2 M 2 M M M = = = < > 2 [ ] ( + 1)/M 2 ( 1) ( + 1) M 2 2 + ( 1) M 2 1 if M = 1 1 if M < 1 1 if M > 1 +1 if M 1 (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Note that M acts in a similar fashion as M . As M goes to innity, M takes a nite value and hence, it is more advantageous to deal with this quantity