Hypersonic Flow Over Cones

Abstract

The Taylor-Maccoll equation for the supersonic flow of an ideal gas about a right circular cone with an attached shock wave is solved for the two cases of infinite free stream Mach numbers. The solution for the former is given in terms of an expansion in the limiting density ratio across the shock E(sub)L, and the solution to the latter in terms of a double expansion in the actual density ratio, E, and E(sub)L. The results are compared with a Taylor series solution to the Taylor-Maccoll equation and also with the exact values of Kopal for air and Mueller for helium.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1960
Accession Number
AD0255519

Entities

People

  • Stanley A. Berger

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautical Engineering
  • Air Force
  • Axisymmetric Flow
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Free Stream
  • Hypersonic Flow
  • Legendre Functions
  • Mach Number
  • Shock Waves
  • Specific Heat
  • Supersonic Flow

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

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