Mathematical Theory of Compressible Fluid Flow

A pioneer in the fields of statistics and probability theory, Richard von Mises made notable advances in boundary-layer-flow theory and airfoil design. Suitable as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students--as well as a reference for professionals--this text on compressible flow examines the fundamentals of high-speed flows. It offers detailed considerations of general theorems, conservation equations, waves, shocks, and nonisentropic flows, with particular emphasis on the basics, both conceptual and mathematical. The general theory of characteristics receives a remarkably complete and simple treatment, with detailed applications, and the theory of shocks as asymptotic phenomena appears within the context of rational mechanics. 1958 ed. 175 figures.