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The box, and the one thing assumed about it

The box, and the one thing assumed about it
The box, and the one thing assumed about it. The control volume across a sudden enlargement. Mass and momentum crossing the two ends are known exactly. The only modelling statement in the whole derivation is written on the annular step: the pressure there is taken to be the upstream pressure, because the fluid in the corner is nearly stationary. Measurement supports it well. Nothing else is assumed, and in particular nothing at all is assumed about the eddy that lives in that corner — which this figure therefore does not draw.

The control volume across a sudden enlargement. Mass and momentum crossing the two ends are known exactly. The only modelling statement in the whole derivation is written on the annular step: the pressure there is taken to be the upstream pressure, because the fluid in the corner is nearly stationary. Measurement supports it well. Nothing else is assumed, and in particular nothing at all is assumed about the eddy that lives in that corner — which this figure therefore does not draw.

2 essays call expansion-loss. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing expansion-loss changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

Where it is called

What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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