ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS FOR STATIONARY CONICAL DETONATIONS AND DEFLAGRATIONS IN SUPERSONIC FLOW

Abstract

Approximate analytical relations are developed for several possible ''conical'' flow fields resulting from the steady supersonic flow of a uniform, non-viscous, non-heat conducting, combustible-gas mixture past a semi-infinite cone (at zero angle of attack) for instantaneous chemical reaction. The flow fields considery-are of the shock-deflagration, detonation, and detonation-shock types with attached adiabatic and diabatic discontinuities. Particular emphasis is placed upon the Chapman-Jouguet detonation. Parametric curves are presented for shock-deflagration flows about cones and wedges, and Chapman-Jouguet detonative flows about cones. Generalized analyses of the flow characteristics of an oblique exothermic discontinuity are given in the appendices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0405038

Entities

People

  • Henry W. Woolard

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Continuity
  • Detonation Waves
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Free Stream
  • Ignition Systems
  • Mach Number
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Shock Waves
  • Specific Heat
  • Supersonic Combustion
  • Supersonic Flow
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers