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Calculation of the Pressure Distribution on a Right-Angled Wedge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

F.H. Barnes  and
I. Grant
F.H. Barnes
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh
I. Grant
Affiliation:
Department of Offshore Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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Summary

A comparison is made between three models of the two-dimensional flow of an inviscid fluid over a bluff body. The models are the Roshko free-streamline model, the Parkinson and Jandali wake-source model and the Bearman and Fackrell vortex-lattice model. The models are used to predict the surface pressure distribution on the front face of a right-angled wedge for the two symmetrical positions of the wedge, and a comparison is made with the experimental results of Slater. A further comparison is then made of Slater’s results for the surface pressure distributions on a wedge of finite thickness with the distributions predicted by the vortex-lattice model, for the wedge at a number of angular positions to the flow.

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Research Article
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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 271 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1982

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