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297
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<TITLE>
compressibility effects in magneto-aerodynamic flows
past thin bodies .
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<AUTHOR>
mccune,j.e. and resler,e.l.
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<BIBLIO>
j. ae. scs. 27, 1960.
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<TEXT>
  the effects of compressibility on the steady motion of a highly
conducting fluid past thin cylindrical bodies in the presence of a
magnetic field are studied .  procedures are developed for the
solution of this class of magnetoaerodynamic problems over the
entire mach number range and for all ratios of magnetic to fluiddynamic
pressure .  the results obtained are analogous either to
the ackeret theory or the prandtl-glauert rule of conventional
aerodynamics, depending on the relative values of the flow speed
and the appropriate speed of propagation of magnetoacoustic
disturbances .  the methods used and the physical interpretation
of the solutions obtained vary according to the orientation of the
magnetic field with respect to the flow direction .
  the results of the theory are explained in terms of the anisotropic
propagation of magnetoacoustic pulses studied previously
by several authors .
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