LIFT ON INCLINED BODIES OF REVOLUTION IN HYPERSONIC FLOW

Abstract

The importance of body lift lies in the fact that at moderate angles of attack and high Mach number it can constitute an appreciable part of the total lift of a winged missile. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze body lift in hypersonic flow by an approximate method and, together with a correlation of existing experimental data, to indicate the probable variation of body lift over a wide range of Mach number extending from low supersonic to hypersonic. The method of analysis of hypersonic flow over inclined bodies of revolution employed herein has been denoted as the hypersonic approximation. It is an improvement on the Newtonian corpuscular theory of aerodynamics since it considers the centrifugal forces resulting from the curved paths of the air particles in addition to the impact (Newtonian) forces.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 17, 1950
Accession Number
AD0603829

Entities

People

  • E. P. Williams
  • G. Grimminger
  • G. Young

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerodynamic Forces
  • Bodies
  • Bodies Of Revolution
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Centrifugal Force
  • Diagrams
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Experimental Data
  • Fineness Ratio
  • Flow
  • Free Stream
  • Hypersonic Flow
  • Mach Number
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow