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Maximum Value of Oblique shock

The maximum values are summarized in the following Table .

**Table 4.1:** Maximum values of oblique shock (continue) k=1.4
**Table 13.1:** Table of maximum values of the oblique Shock k=1.4
$\rule[-0.1in]{0.pt}{0.3 in}\mathbf{M_x}$	$\mathbf{M_y}$	$\mathbf{\delta_{max}}$	$\mathbf{\theta_{max}}$

1.1000	0.97131	1.5152	76.2762
1.2000	0.95049	3.9442	71.9555
1.3000	0.93629	6.6621	69.3645
1.4000	0.92683	9.4272	67.7023
1.5000	0.92165	12.1127	66.5676
1.6000	0.91941	14.6515	65.7972
1.7000	0.91871	17.0119	65.3066
1.8000	0.91997	19.1833	64.9668
1.9000	0.92224	21.1675	64.7532
2.0000	0.92478	22.9735	64.6465
2.2000	0.93083	26.1028	64.6074
2.4000	0.93747	28.6814	64.6934
2.6000	0.94387	30.8137	64.8443
2.8000	0.94925	32.5875	65.0399
3.0000	0.95435	34.0734	65.2309
3.2000	0.95897	35.3275	65.4144
3.4000	0.96335	36.3934	65.5787
3.6000	0.96630	37.3059	65.7593
3.8000	0.96942	38.0922	65.9087
4.0000	0.97214	38.7739	66.0464
5.0000	0.98183	41.1177	66.5671
6.0000	0.98714	42.4398	66.9020
7.0000	0.99047	43.2546	67.1196
8.0000	0.99337	43.7908	67.2503
9.0000	0.99440	44.1619	67.3673
10.0000	0.99559	44.4290	67.4419

It must be noted that the calculations are for the perfect gas model. In some cases, this assumption might not be sufficient and different analysis is needed. Henderson and Menikoff^13.23 suggested a procedure to calculate the maximum deflection angle for arbitrary equation of state^13.24.

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Created by:Genick Bar-Meir, Ph.D.
On: 2007-11-21