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A model of supersonic flow past blunt axisymmetric bodies, with application to Chester's solution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. D. Van Dyke
Affiliation:
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California

Abstract

A simple approximate model is set forth for the flow field between the nose of a blunt body of revolution and its detached shock wave. The model tends to explain the poor convergence of Chester's solution, which is based on an improvement of the Newtonian approximation. It suggests a modification of his series for the body shape which appears to improve its convergence considerably.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1958 Cambridge University Press

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