Timeline for What would the density profile of this shock wave look like, roughly?
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| Sep 1, 2017 at 9:45 | comment | added | uhoh | I see, it got hot. OK thanks! | |
| Sep 1, 2017 at 8:48 | comment | added | GSammons | The freestream density was set to 1.225kg/m3, which is approx. sea-level air density. The leading edge is under compression due to the dynamic pressure but with regards to the trailing edge, my guess is that skin friction has converted some of the dynamic pressure into static pressure. | |
| Aug 31, 2017 at 22:13 | comment | added | uhoh | Excellent! Thanks for finding my question and posting a very helpful answer. What is the scale for density? Is it normalized to the density at infinity? I'm trying to understand why it's >1.5 at the left and right edges. | |
| Aug 31, 2017 at 22:06 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Aug 31, 2017 at 18:35 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Aug 31, 2017 at 18:16 | history | answered | GSammons | CC BY-SA 3.0 |