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As the air flow around an aircraft is not uniform, locally supersonic zones may exist even under subsonic upstream flow condition, this defines the transonic regime, a condition where both subsonic and supersonic regions coexist.
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Chanetz, B., Délery, J., Gilliéron, P., Gnemmi, P., Gowree, E.R., Perrier, P. (2020). Transonic Wind Tunnels. In: Experimental Aerodynamics. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35562-3_4
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