Open AccessThe flow of a compressible liquid in the neighbourhood of the throat of a constriction in a circular wind channel
Author(s) -
S. G. Hooker
Publication year - 1932
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1932.0048
Subject(s) - conservative vector field , compressibility , mechanics , compressible flow , motion (physics) , taylor series , physics , classical mechanics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
As a result of earlier work by G. I. Taylor on the two-dimensional motion of a compressible fluid, it appears evident that the elastic property of a fluid places a limitation upon the maximum velocity which can exist in a field in order that a certain type of irrotational motion may continue to be possible. So far a complete solution of the equation of motion of a compressible fluid in any particular problem has eluded the workers on this subject, and the greatest theoretical advance came when Taylor used the idea of expanding the velocity potential in a power series about the point of maximum velocity.