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Compressible Flow

Compressible Flow is a branch of fluid dynamics in which the density of the fluid is variable and significant, distinguishing it from incompressible flow by accounting for density changes due to pressure variations, particularly at high Mach numbers.

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Compressible Fluid DynamicsFree Surface Flow SimulationFree-surface Flow Simulation

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The Compressibility of Media under Extreme Pressures

F. D. Murnaghan · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1944 · 8.6K citations · Full text

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The Local Structure of Turbulence in Incompressible Viscous Fluid for Very Large Reynolds' Numbers

Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров · Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences · 1941 · 4.5K citations

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Boundary conditions for direct simulations of compressible viscous flows

Thierry Poinsot, S.K Lelef · Journal of Computational Physics · 1992 · 3.4K citations

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Taylor instability in shock acceleration of compressible fluids

Robert D. Richtmyer · Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics · 1960 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Moving-Particle Semi-Implicit Method for Fragmentation of Incompressible Fluid

Seiichi Koshizuka, Y. Oka · Nuclear Science and Engineering · 1996 · 2K citations

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Authors

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  1. ZX
    Zhouping Xin

    Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

    44 publications · 4.4K citations

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  2. EF
    Eduard Feireisl

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Czechia

    62 publications · 3.1K citations

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  3. AN
    Antonín Novotný

    Université de Toulon, France

    41 publications · 1.7K citations

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  4. SC
    Shiyi Chen

    Peking University, China

    35 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. DW
    Dehua Wang

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    29 publications · 2.2K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    61 h-index

    664 publications

    29K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    58 h-index

    268 publications

    32.2K citations

  3. Langley Research Center

    Hampton, United States

    45 h-index

    142 publications

    17K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    44 h-index

    197 publications

    14.6K citations

  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    42 h-index

    150 publications

    13.1K citations

  6. Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics

    Beijing, China

    41 h-index

    193 publications

    8.8K citations

  7. Ames Research Center

    Mountain View, United States

    41 h-index

    135 publications

    19.3K citations

  8. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    40 h-index

    139 publications

    14.2K citations

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  1. Journal of Computational Physics

    555 publications · 56.9K citations

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  2. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    328 publications · 23.9K citations

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  3. AIAA Journal

    248 publications · 15.6K citations

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  4. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

    115 publications · 8K citations

    52

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  5. Physics of Fluids

    235 publications · 10.1K citations

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