Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach 8th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0-07339-817-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-07339-817-4

Chapter 17 - Compressible Flow - Problems - Page 890: 17-26

Answer

$c_{1}/c_{2} = 1.28$

Work Step by Step

we have Initail speed $c_{1} = \sqrt(K_{1}RT_{1})$ Final speed $ c_{2} = \sqrt(K_{2}RT_{2})$ so $c_{1}/c_{2} = \sqrt(KRT_{1})/\sqrt(KRT_{2})$ $K_{1} =K_{2}$ , since the air has ideal gas behavior $ c_{1}/c_{2} = \sqrt(T_{1})/\sqrt(T_{2})$.........(1) but$ (T_{1}1/T_{2}) =(p_{1}/p_{2})^((k-1)/k)$ so substituting for $(T_{1}1/T_{2})$ in eq(1) we get $c_{1}/c_{2} = \sqrt((p_{1}/p_{2})^((k-1)/k))$ given that p1 = 2.2 p2 = 0.4 K = 1.4 sustituting the values we get $c_{1}/c_{2} =\sqrt((2.2/0.4)^((1.4-1)/1.4))$ $c_{1}/c_{2} = 1.28$
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