Asymptotic Far Field Conditions for Unsteady Subsonic and Transonic Flows.

Abstract

Far field conditions for unsteady flow at subsonic and transonic Mach numbers are derived under the assumption that the changes that occur in the flow field are not too slow. One then can derive far field conditions from analytic expressions which approximate the behaviour of wave fronts and sound rays at large distances. In subsonic blows, one uses for this purpose equations linearized for the vicinity of a parallel flow with the free stream Mach number. This leads to the result of Bayliss, Gunzburger, and Tyrkel, but extended to nonspherical wave fronts. Some theoretical insight from a different point of view is provided by interpreting the waves fronts as characteristic surfaces. The linearization used for subsonic flows fails for free stream Mach number one, because it leads to a pilling up of waves in a plane perpendicular to the free stream direction. A linearization is again carried out but with respect to a flow field in which the term of the steady flow, which dominates at a large distance, is taken into account.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA129268

Entities

People

  • Karl G. Guderley

Organizations

  • University of Dayton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Axisymmetric Flow
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Far Field
  • Field Conditions
  • Flow Fields
  • Free Stream
  • Frequency
  • Mach Number
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Steady Flow
  • Subsonic Flow
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transonic Flow
  • Unsteady Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.