A Numerical Investigation into Transonic Flight on Mars Utilizing a 2-D URANS Approach

Interest in powered flight on Mars has been growing in recent years, and as such new developments are being made in determining the effects the Martian atmosphere has on the flow physics and performance, specifically with regards to similarity parameters: the Reynolds number & the Mach number. This paper aimed to investigate whether the...

Salt cavern volume estimation from pressure response: compressibility-based method

Salt caverns formed by solution mining may cause soil subsidence, because the surrounding adapts to fill the void (cavity) created in the strata. The cavern volume is hence not only a function of salt extraction (estimated from mass balance) but also a function of salt creep. The cavern size can be measured by sonar, but a less costly way would...

Real Gas Thermodynamics: and the isentropic behavior of substances

A generalized isentropic gas model is derived following earlier work by Kouremenos et al. in the 1980s, by replacing the traditional adiabatic exponent γ by the real exponents γPv, γTv, and γPT, describing the isentropic pressure-volume, temperature-volume, and pressure-temperature relations respectively. The real adiabatic exponents are...