THE HIGH SPEED FLOW OF GAS AROUND BLUNT BODIES,

Abstract

A number of results derived on the flow of air around blunt bodies moving at high speed are presented in a unified analysis. The theory predicts in a satisfactory way the shock shape and detachment distance for two blunt bodies, a flat disk, and a sphere. It is shown that the density ratio across a normal shock is a useful parameter combining the effects of both the free stream Mach number and the ratio of specific heats. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 11, 1957
Accession Number
AD0606535

Entities

People

  • Hyman Serbin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blunt Bodies
  • Bodies
  • Flow
  • Free Stream
  • Mach Number
  • Physical Properties
  • Specific Heat

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.