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RefNoRR/72/260
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William George Penney, on a paper 'The supersonic flow of compressible fluid through axially symmetric tubes of uniform and varying section' by R K Tempest
Date29 August 1949
DescriptionSectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The author has overlooked the most fundamental property of supersonic potential flow. There are other exampled of divergent supersonic potential flows that merit discussion.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1950].

Date received not given.
Extent2p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionStandardised form (type E)
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1950.0034
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2058Penney; William George (1909 - 1991); Baron Penney of East Hendred1909 - 1991
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