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Experiments on the low-speed flow past cones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. R. Calvert
Affiliation:
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge

Abstract

The wake behind a cone in incompressible flow has the form of a closed bubble. Measurements of velocity, turbulence and static pressure for various cone angles show that the wakes are all essentially similar. A wake Strouhal number may be defined, which is the same for all the models. A disk may be treated as a cone of 180° vertex angle.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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