THE CALCULATIONS OF THE FLOW FIELD ABOUT A BLUNTED 9 DEGREE CONE

Abstract

The inviscid flow fields about a hemispherically blunted cone (9 degree half-angle) were calculated at five hypersonic Mach numbers. The calculation is begun in the subsonic region by the method of Vaglio-Laurin and Ferri and extended into the near wake by the method of characteristics. The air was taken to be a mixture of perfect gases, either chemically frozen or in thermodynamic equilibrium. Results from these calculations were used as initial data for rate and wake calculations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 06, 1961
Accession Number
AD0425652

Entities

People

  • Alexander T. Fields
  • E. Kennedy
  • M. Seidman

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Ballistic Trajectories
  • Base Pressure
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Bow Shock
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Inviscid Flow
  • Layers
  • Mach Number
  • Method Of Characteristics
  • Pressure Distribution

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight