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How the normal shock is obtained?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

An intuitive approach: As a moving object travels through a fluid, the fluid particles hitting the object transmit information with the speed of sound to the surrounding fluid particles about their encounter with the body. If the speed of the moving object is smaller than the speed of sound the surrounding particles have time to react and "get out of the way"(i.e. the streamlines begin to curve to compensate for the presence of the body) since the perturbation caused by impact propagates with speed of sound. But if the moving object travels with a speed higher than the speed of sound then the surrounding particles can't react(information about the collision hasn't arrive to them prior to the object reaching them). That's how the shock wave is formed. Now, the normal shock is a special case when the speed of the moving object is exactly the speed of sound (or Mach number equals one). In this case you can imagine that the molecules in front of the object form a "wall" perpendicular to the moving direction of the object.

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