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Mechanism of windward vortex shocks about supersonic slender bodies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
Abstract
A detailed numerical study has been performed to investigate the origin and mechanism of the formation of windward shocks that have been observed on inclined slender bodies at supersonic speeds inside the bow shock wave around the body. It is shown that the feature is associated with the virtual double cone-like deflection of the supersonic stream by the primary vortices and, as such, can be named the ‘vortex shock’.
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