Compressible Viscous Note:

Other effects could have been included in this diagram. e.g. steady vs. unsteady flows

Compressible Inviscid

Incompressible Viscous

Compressible Boundary Layer

Compressible Potential

Incompressible Invicid

Incompressible Boundary Layer

Small Disturbance Comp. Potential

Incompressible Potential

Subsonic

Transonic

Supersonic

Small Disturbance Inc. Potential

*Each arrow indicates an additional assumption has been applied *More than one path to a given approximation