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Inviscid, Compressible Flow Past Thin Airfoils

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Compressibility effects are significant when the incoming Mach numbers or the local Mach numbers take values that are no longer small compared to unity.

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Chattot, J.J., Hafez, M.M. (2015). Inviscid, Compressible Flow Past Thin Airfoils. In: Theoretical and Applied Aerodynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9825-9_4

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