Tables of Supersonic Flows About Cone Cylinders. Part 1. Surface Data

Abstract

A family of inviscid steady axisymmetric supersonic flows about some cylinders has been calculated by the method of characteristics on the ENIAC. The cones have semi-vertex angles of the form 5k deg (1 < or = k < or = 10), while the Mach numbers contained in the set 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, are such that the shock wave is attached to and conical near the vertex. Pressure, density, temperature, and local Mach number distributions on the cylinder have been tabulated, and the pressure data have also been presented graphically. The ENIAC results have been compared with computations from other sources and with experimental data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1950
Accession Number
ADA800150

Entities

People

  • J. H. Giese
  • R. F. Clippinger
  • W. C. Carter

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Axisymmetric
  • Bodies
  • Bodies Of Revolution
  • Boundaries
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Flow
  • Free Stream
  • Grids
  • Mach Number
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Shock Waves
  • Standards
  • Supersonic Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Geodesy

Technology Areas

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