THE EFFECT OF LENGTH ON THE AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BODIES OF REVOLUTION IN SUPERSONIC FLIGHT

Abstract

More than 300 rocket models of various lengths were fired on the free flight spark range. The data from these firings were analyzed to provide a good determination of the effect of model length on the aerodynamic coefficients for supersonic Mach numbers. The effect of length on dynamic stability was considered in detail. Crude approximations indicated that dynamic stability can be improved by moving the center of mass reward and that quite long models can be stabilized with reasonable gun twists. (See also AD021307)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1953
Accession Number
AD0023468

Entities

People

  • C. H. Murphy
  • L. E. Schmidt

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerodynamic Forces
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Drag
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Skin Friction
  • Slender Bodies
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow