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The Flow Past Elliptic-nosed Cylinders and Bodies of Revolution in Supersonic Air Streams*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

D. W. Holder  and
A. Chinneck
D. W. Holder
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory
A. Chinneck
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory
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Summary

The flow past families of two-dimensional cylinders and bodies of revolution with elliptic noses at zero incidence has been examined at free stream Mach numbers between 1·42 and 1·82. The observations include schlieren photographs and measurements of the pressure distributions at the surface.

The measured pressure distributions and positions of the detached bow waves are found to be in fair agreement with values calculated by a number of methods. The drag coefficients of the slender two-dimensional elliptic noses are considerably higher than those calculated for wedges of the same axis ratio with attached shock waves, but the drags become almost equal when the axis ratio approaches the value for subsonic flow behind the bow wave of the wedge. For most axis ratios the drag coefficients of the elliptic-nosed bodies of revolution are lower than those for cones of the same axis ratio.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , February 1954 , pp. 317 - 340
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1954

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Some preliminary results of this investigation are described in A.R.C. 12, 418, 12, 660, 12, 495.

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