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Wave reflexion near a wall†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. Robinson
A. Robinson
Affiliation:
College of AeronauticsCranfield
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Abstract

The field of flow due to a shock wave or expansion wave undergoes a considerable modification in the neighbourhood of a rigid wall. It has been suggested that the resulting propagation of the disturbance upstream is largely due to the fact that the main flow in the boundary layer is subsonic. Simple models were produced by Howarth, and Tsien and Finston, to test this suggestion, assuming the co-existence of layers of uniform supersonic and subsonic main-stream velocities. The analysis developed in the present paper is designed to cope with any arbitrary continuous velocity profile which varies from zero at the wall to a constant supersonic velocity in the main stream. Numerical examples are calculated, and it is concluded that a simple inviscid theory is incapable of giving an adequate theoretical account of the phenomenon. The analysis includes a detailed discussion of the process of continuous wave reflexion in a supersonic shear layer.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 1951 , pp. 528 - 544
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

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