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An Investigation into the Flow around a Family of Elliptically Nosed Cylinders at Zero Incidence at M∞ = 2.5 and M∞ = 4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

D R Philpott
D R Philpott*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, The Hatfield Polytechnic
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Summary

Surface pressure measurements and schlieren photographs at M∞ = 2.50 and M∞ = 4.00 are presented for a family of axisymmetric elliptically-nosed models with cylindrical afterbodies. The results are an extension of those obtained by Holder and Chinneck on the same series of models at lower Mach numbers.

Some comparison is made with theoretical results, and the forebody surface pressures obtained experimentally are found to be in good agreement with results obtained using either the method of integral relations or the time-dependent method.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , November 1972 , pp. 315 - 326
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1972

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