HYPERSONIC FLOW OVER A YAWED CIRCULAR CONE.

Abstract

A 10 degree semi-apex, circular cone is tested in air at Mach 8 and at yaw angles to 24 degrees; surface pressure, heat transfer, and pitot pressure throughout the flow field are presented. The nominal surface temperature is 40% of the free stream stagnation temperature, and the Reyn olds number, based on cone generator length, is varied from 0.5 x 10 to the 5th power to 4.2 x 10 to the 5th power. Heat transfer is measured at higher surface temperature ratios (up to 56%) and Reynolds numbers (up to 7.3 x 10 to the 5th power) by reducing the free stream stagnation temperature. All raw data consist of continuous circumferential distributions of each quantity and are included in a supplement. The surface pressure data are compared with the theories of Stone-Kopal and Cheng; Reshotko's theory of heat transfer to the windward generator is compared with experiment. The probe data delineate the boundary between viscous and inviscid flow and determine the shape of the outer shock wave as well as the secondary shocks which appear in the flow field at large yaw. The probe data are sufficient to determine the flow field in the plane of symmetry and permit an approximate rep resentation of the Mach number profiles of the separated viscous flow in the leeward meridian plane beyond a moderate yaw angle. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1963
Accession Number
AD0416150

Entities

People

  • Richard R. Tracy

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Free Stream
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hypersonic Flow
  • Inviscid Flow
  • Mach Number
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shock Waves
  • Stagnation Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics

Technology Areas

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