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Calculation of Downwash Behind a Supersonic Wing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

G. N. Ward*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University, Manchester
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Once the linearised lift problem for a supersonic wing has been solved and the disturbance velocity potential or the pressure is known at every point on the surface, the complete flow round the wing and the downwash behind the wing may be found by the following procedure.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1949

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