COMPARISON OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PRESSURE AND HEAT-TRANSFER DISTRIBUTIONS ON THREE BLUNT NOSED CYLINDERS IN HYPERSONIC FLOW

Abstract

Pressure and heat-transfer data over flow-aligned cylinders with three nose shapes (Hemisphere, flat-face, and rounded-shoulder flat-face) have been obtained at nominal Mach numbers of 6, 8, 10, and 19 and over the Reynolds number range of 9,000 to 2,160,000, based on model diameter. The experimental pressure and heat-transfer distributions are compared with theoretical predictions and with selected previously published data from other facilities. The agreement between the experimental results and selected theories for the hemisphere cylinder model is good. However, the pressure and heat-transfer distributions on the other two configurations could not be adequately predicted over the entire model surface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0819547

Entities

People

  • R. H. Eaves Jr.
  • R. K. Matthews

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bodies Of Revolution
  • Boundary Layer
  • Electric Arcs
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Heat Transfer
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Mach Number
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Test Facilities
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

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