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The Effects of Vibrational Relaxation onHypersonic Flow Past Blunt Bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

P. A. Blythe
P. A. Blythe*
Affiliation:
The Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester*
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Summary

The analysis of Freeman is extended to the hypersonic flow of an inviscid, vibrationally relaxing gas past a bluff body. Expressions for the shock shape, streamline shapes and stand-off distance are derived; these expressions have been evaluated for a sphere for various values of an appropriate non-equilibrium parameter Λ.

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Research Article
Information
Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1963 , pp. 357 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1997

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