Mathematical Problems in Engineering 
Volume 4 (1998), Issue 4, Pages 289-300
doi:10.1155/S1024123X98000842

The hybersonic navier-stokes approximation for the normal shock structure of a perfect gas with the Sutherland viscosity law: Review and extension

W. B. Bush1 and L. Krishnamurthy2

 1King Buck & Associates, Inc., San Diego 92110, CA, USA
2Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne 32901-6988, FL, USA
Received 30 September 1997

Abstract

By means of a four-region asymptotic analysis, a uniformly valid description of the Sutherland-viscosity-law Navier-Stokes structure of the normal shock wave in the hypersonic approximation is obtained.