At this Web
site you can study high speed aerodynamics at your own pace and to your own
level of interest. Some of the topics included are:
isentropic flows,
oblique, and
normal shock waves,
and
multiple shock interactions.
Because high speed aerodynamics involves the generation of heat,
there are several pages
devoted to basic gas properties, how
those properties change through the atmosphere,
and some basic thermodynamics.
This site was
prepared at NASA Glenn
to provide background information on high speed aerodynamics
for undergraduates, professionals, and life-long learners.
There is a particular emphasis here on the
math and science involved with high speed aerodynamics.
High school students should be able to make sense of the
math and science principles.
We include many, small, interactive
calculators and simulators
which solve the flow equations and are provided to aid your understanding.
This site has been intentionally organized to mirror
the unstructured nature of the world
wide web. There are many pages here connected
to one another through hyperlinks and you can then navigate through
the links based on your own interest and inquiry.
There is an index of topics that you
can access from any page, so you are never more than two clicks
away from any other Web page at this site.
However, if you
prefer a more structured approach, you can also take one of our
Guided Tours through the site. Each tour
provides a sequence of pages dealing with some aspect of aerodynamics.
NOTICE ---
The site has been developed to support Section
508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Many of the pages contain mathematical
equations which have been produced graphically and which are too
long or complex to provide in an "ALT" tag. For these pages, we
have retained the non-compliant graphic at the top of the page
and have provided a compliant text version of the equations in the
body of the page. In many cases, because of the use of Greek fonts in the
graphics, the purely English text version of the equations is slightly
different than the graphic version. The differences are noted in the text.
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