Author name: Bhagiya Prasad

Enthalpy is a thermodynamic property that represents the total heat content of a system at a constant pressure. It combines the internal energy of a system with the product of its pressure and volume. An adiabatic wall refers to a hypothetical boundary or surface in a thermodynamic system that is assumed to be perfectly insulated […]

In aerodynamics, the Reynolds analogy is a concept that relates the skin friction drag and heat transfer characteristics of a fluid flow over a solid body. It is based on the idea that, under certain conditions, the physics of skin friction (momentum transfer) and heat transfer (energy transfer) can be related in a simple way. 

Skin friction drag (Cf) is a concept used in fluid dynamics to quantify the drag force experienced by a solid body moving through a fluid, particularly in the context of aerodynamics. It specifically refers to the drag force resulting from the viscous shear stress at the surface of the body due to the fluid’s viscosity. 

Skin-friction drag is a type of drag force that arises due to the viscous interactions between a fluid and a solid surface. In the context of incompressible turbulent flow over a flat plate, skin-friction drag refers to the force exerted by the fluid on the flat plate’s surface as a result of the shearing action

The velocity (V) of the fluid is equal to the product of the Mach number (M) and the speed of sound (a) in that fluid. Velocity is a vector quantity that describes the rate of change of an object’s position with respect to time. It specifies both the speed of the object’s motion and its

The speed of sound in a gas is directly related to the compressibility of the gas. Compressibility is a measure of how easily a gas can be compressed or how its volume changes in response to changes in pressure. The compressibility factor (Z) is often used to characterize the compressibility of gases.  a: Speed of

The isentropic compressibility (τs) of a fluid is a measure of its relative volume change with respect to pressure changes under isentropic (adiabatic and reversible) conditions. It quantifies how much the density of the fluid changes when the pressure is altered without heat exchange (adiabatic process) while keeping the entropy constant.  τs: Isentropic compressibility  γ:

The time for a sound wave to travel a certain distance is the duration it takes for the sound wave to propagate from one point to another through a medium. It is a measure of how long it takes for the sound energy to travel a specific distance, and it is a fundamental concept in

The speed of sound is the rate at which sound waves travel through a medium, such as air, water, or a solid material. It represents the speed at which disturbances in pressure and density propagate through the medium, resulting in the transmission of sound. For ideal diatomic gases, such as dry air, the specific gas

In incompressible laminar flow over a flat plate, the local skin-friction coefficient (Cf) is a dimensionless parameter that quantifies the skin-friction drag experienced by the flat plate at a specific location along its surface. It represents the tangential drag force per unit area acting on the surface of the flat plate due to the fluid’s