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Rankine-Hugoniot conditions: a standalone construct

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Aerodynamics

conservation relations for mass, momentum and energy that link the gas states on either side of a shock wave.

In aerodynamics, Rankine-Hugoniot conditions refers to conservation relations for mass, momentum and energy that link the gas states on either side of a shock wave. This meaning comes from Rankine (1870) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.[1]

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References

Rankine, W. J. M. (1870). XV. On the thermodynamic theory of waves of finite longitudinal disturbance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 277-288. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1870.0015

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