Akihiro Sasoh is a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1989. His research interests include compressible fluid dynamics and space propulsion. He has co-authored more than 200 journal articles and conference papers.

• Propagation of pressure waves.- Motions of gas particles related to thermodynamics.- Basic equations for flow.- Discontinuity.- Quasi-one-dimensional flows.- System with source terms.- Two-dimensional flows.- Unsteady, one-dimensional flows.- Riemann problem.- Method of characteristics.- Generation and applications of compressible flows.- Shock-like phenomena.

Akihiro Sasoh is a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1989. His research interests include compressible fluid dynamics and space propulsion. He has co-authored more than 200 journal articles and conference papers.

• Propagation of pressure waves.- Motions of gas particles related to thermodynamics.- Basic equations for flow.- Discontinuity.- Quasi-one-dimensional flows.- System with source terms.- Two-dimensional flows.- Unsteady, one-dimensional flows.- Riemann problem.- Method of characteristics.- Generation and applications of compressible flows.- Shock-like phenomena.

Akihiro Sasoh is a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1989. His research interests include compressible fluid dynamics and space propulsion. He has co-authored more than 200 journal articles and conference papers.

• Propagation of pressure waves.- Motions of gas particles related to thermodynamics.- Basic equations for flow.- Discontinuity.- Quasi-one-dimensional flows.- System with source terms.- Two-dimensional flows.- Unsteady, one-dimensional flows.- Riemann problem.- Method of characteristics.- Generation and applications of compressible flows.- Shock-like phenomena.