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The slender elliptic cone as a model for non-linear supersonic flow theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

M. D. Van Dyke
Affiliation:
Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Moffett Field, California

Abstract

The second-order slender-body solution is derived for an unyawed elliptic cone in supersonic flow. The result is used as the basis for a critique of various approximations in compressible flow theory: slender-body, linearized, first- and second-order thin-wing theories; edge corrections; and the method of linearized characteristics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1956 Cambridge University Press

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