Two different physics, one destination
The Fanno and Rayleigh lines, each with temperature up the page and entropy across, each referred to its own sonic state. Neither is a curve anybody drew: the entropy was swept over Mach number and its maximum located, and it sits at Mach 1 on both to within the resolution of the sweep. The subsonic branch runs up to the nose from the left and the supersonic branch runs up from below, so whatever is being done to the flow, it can only be moved towards that point.
2 essays call
fanno-rayleigh. 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 fanno-rayleigh 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.
- Two ways to choke Compressible flow
- A duct that cannot be run backwards Compressible flow