Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 4 (1998), Issue 4, Pages 289-300
doi:10.1155/S1024123X98000842

The hybersonic navier-stokes approximation for the normal shock structure of a perfect gas with the Sutherland viscosity law: Review and extension

W. B. Bush1 and L. Krishnamurthy2

1King Buck & Associates, Inc., San Diego 92110, CA, USA
2Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne 32901-6988, FL, USA

Received 30 September 1997

Copyright © 1998 W. B. Bush and L. Krishnamurthy. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

By means of a four-region asymptotic analysis, a uniformly valid description of the Sutherland-viscosity-law Navier-Stokes structure of the normal shock wave in the hypersonic approximation is obtained.