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Stagnation Temperature

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Calculate stagnation temperature and isentropic total-to-static ratios for compressible flow.

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Stagnation temperature

396.00 K

T0/T 1.8000

Pressure ratio

7.8244

p0/p

Density ratio

4.3469

rho0/rho

Stagnation heating

Flow brought to rest at a probe converts kinetic energy into total temperature under the isentropic model.

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static streamT 220.0 Kstagnation pointT0 396.0 Kvelocity is reduced to zero at the probe nosetemperature rise 176.0 K

Temperature ratio

T0/T 1.8000

gamma 1.40 isentropic flow

Pressure ratio

p0/p 7.824

total pressure from the same state

Density ratio

rho0/rho 4.347

follows from p0/T0 relation

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