Referee'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
Reference number: RR/72/260
Date: 29 August 1949
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Sectional 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].
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William George Penney, Referee'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, 29 August 1949, RR/72/260, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_260/referees-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, accessed on 09 March 2026
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Date: 22nd February 1950
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1950.0034
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Referees' reports: volume 72, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1949 Reference number: RR/72
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