When you finish reading this chapter, you
should be able to:
■ Appreciate the consequences
of compressibility in gas flow
■ Understand why a nozzle must
have a diverging section to
accelerate a gas to supersonic
speeds
■ Predict the occurrence of shocks
and calculate property changes
across a shock wave
■ Understand the effects of
friction and heat transfer
on compressible flows
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