Steady, inviscid, irrotational flow of a perfect gas in two dimensions is considered in the tangent gas approximation. A fast and accurate method of solution is proposed and solved numerically. Comparison of tangent gas and exact flows are presented. Tangent gas solutions when used as the first step in the iterative solution of the exact flowfield are shown to give substantial reduction in comp...

A sharpened version of an important property of perfect gases proved by MONLEON & PEDREGAL [1] is proved here by exploiting fully the fact that every perfect gas has an entropy function. In this manner, the more advanced machinery of weak convergence employed in the earlier version is avoided, and a more elementary and accessible proof emerges. CONTENTS

Pure graphene is known as the strongest material ever discovered. However, the unavoidable defect formation in the fabrication process renders the strength of defective graphene much lower (~14%) than that of its perfect counterpart. By means of density functional theory computations, we systematically explored the effect of gas molecules (H2, N2, NH3, CO, CO2 and O2) adsorption on the mechanic...

This paper presents a chemical species transport model to account for variable composition and gas properties along the flow path in internal combustion engines. It is described the numerical solution to adapt the gas dynamic model to chemical species transport in boundary conditions by means of the Method of Characteristics and in volumes by means of a filling and emptying model. The performan...