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Transonic flow past finite wedges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. G. Mackie  and
D. C. Pack
A. G. Mackie
Affiliation:
University College (Dundee)University of st Andrews
D. C. Pack
Affiliation:
University College (Dundee)University of st Andrews
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Abstract

The solution for the flow of an incompressible fluid past an infinitely long wedge with a finite sloping edge (a finite wedge) is generalized by the hodograph method. In the flow thus obtained the axis of symmetry and a sloping edge of the wedge are again part of one streamline. It becomes possible to describe the flow of an ideal gas past a finite wedge if the hypothesis is made that the first singularity on this streamline, along the sloping edge, corresponds to the shoulder of the wedge. For a given wedge, with gradually increasing velocity at infinity upstream, the singularity appears at first at subsonic velocity. Beyond a certain critical velocity at infinity the singularity is always associated with the speed of sound. The hypothesis thus implies that put forward by Maccoll(9) and supported by Busemann(l). A qualitative examination shows that the solution reproduces experimentally known features of the flow of compressible fluid past a finite wedge.

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Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1952 , pp. 178 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1952

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