On Rayleigh's computation of the ‘end correction’, with application to the compression wave generated by a train entering a tunnel

DOI10.1017/S0022112098004182zbMath0931.76086OpenAlexW1965468348MaRDI QIDQ4267372

Publication date: 8 March 2000

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098004182

zbMATH Keywords

exact solution Green's function pressure gradients potential flow method of conformal transformation semi-infinite flanged cylinder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

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