A note on Whitham's Rule
- 1 May 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 22 (01) , 103-104
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112065000617
Abstract
Whitham (1957, 1958) has developed a method for treating the propagation of shock waves into non-uniform media, which has been widely and successfully used. In shock diffraction problems, he considers the medium ahead of the shock to be at rest. The purpose of this note is to generalize Whitham's technique to problems having a uniform flow ahead of the shock, in which the inclination of the shock normal to the direction of flow ahead of the shock remains small. This extension was suggested to the author by Miles (1964) who considered the problem of diffraction of a strong shock by a thin supersonic wedge.Keywords
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