12.7 Normal Compression Shock (Rankine–Hugoniot Equation) 355
flow through pipes having constant cross-sections with heat supply, can now
be repeated for pipe flow under the influence of friction without heat supply.
From the derivations, similar relationships result as for the Rayleigh flow in
(12.94)–(12.102). From, this the “Fanno curve” in the T– s diagram results,
which indicates the possible states of the thermodynamic state that develop
in adiabatic pipe flow with internal friction. The “Rayleigh curve” in the T–s
diagram, on the other hand, represents the thermodynamic change of state
which develops with heat supply in the case of friction-free flow of an ideal
gas in a pipe. With this the Fanno curve indicates the influence of friction
in a pipe flow with constant cross-section, whereas the Rayleigh curve shows
the influence of the heat supply.
12.7 Normal Compression Shock
(Rankine–Hugoniot Equation)
In Sect. 12.3, the formation of compression shocks was explained as a
phenomenon of wave motions with a state-dependent wave velocity. The
discontinuity surface formed in this way shows a thickness which can be
considered to be of the order of magnitude of the free path length of the
molecules of an ideal gas. It is thus possible to describe, within the assump-
tions chosen in this book, the compression shock shown in Fig. 12.15 in a
medium at rest by the fluid mechanical and thermodynamic state quantities
before and after the compression shock. As before, the analysis may be sim-
plified by considering a stationary problem, i.e. assuming that the shock is at
rest. The flow velocity and the variables describing the thermodynamic state
upstream of the shock are denoted by P
A
, ρ
A
, T
A
, e
A
, s
A
and downstream by
P
B
, ρ
B
, T
B
, e
B
, s
B
. Thus the transformation is U
A
= U
s
and U
B
= U
A
−U
g
,
respectively.
Fig. 12.15 Plotted normal compression
shocks and selection of coordinate systems