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Rocket exhaust impingement on a ground surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Hideo Yoshihara
Hideo Yoshihara
Affiliation:
General Dynamics/Astronautics, San Diego, California
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Abstract

The impingement of a rocket jet, exhausting into a vacuum, onto a solid surface is examined using the Newtonian approximation to analyse the transonic region. The jet exhaust into an unbounded vacuum required for this analysis is simplified as a quasi-radial flow using an exact calculation as a basis. Two examples are calculated giving the shock detachment distance and the ground pressures as a function of the rocket altitude.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1963 , pp. 65 - 73
Copyright
© 1963 Cambridge University Press

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