Abstract
Although every fluid is compressible, gases exhibit this property most noticeably, and even here the compressibility property of a gas will have little influence except when the velocity is relatively large. To take compressibility into account we assume that the density ρ is a function of the pressure p, (whereas previously we always considered ρ a constant); it is more convenient, however, to consider the pressure as a function of the density, i.e., p = p(ρ).
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Cf. H. Batemann: Report of the Committee on Hydrodynamics, Part IV, Compressible Fluids, Cull. of the National Research Council (1931).
Cf. V. Karman: Boundary Layer in Compressible Fluids, Journal Aeronautical Sciences, 5, 227–232 (1938).
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von Mises, R., Friedrichs, K.O. (1971). Compressible Fluids. In: Fluid Dynamics. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6406-4_6
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