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Supersonic flow past cones of general cross-section

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

P. M. Stocker
Affiliation:
Armament Research and Development Establishment, War Office, Sevenoaks, Kent
F. E. Mauger
Affiliation:
Armament Research and Development Establishment, War Office, Sevenoaks, Kent

Abstract

The differential equations representing the supersonic flow of a gas past a cone of any cross-section are integrated numerically, using a method similar to those used for bluff-body problems. A stream function is used as one of the independent variables and this is particularly suitable for determining the singular ‘vortical layer’. The method is here applied to the cases of elliptic cones at zero yaw and circular cones at incidence. The results are compared with experiment and with other numerical solutions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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