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Centre of Pressure of Cowl Shapes Having Minimum Drag in Supersonic Flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. J . Carey*
Affiliation:
Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd, Coventry

Extract

Formulae are presented giving the centre of pressure of axi-symmetric bodies at zero incidence having profiles for which the drag is a minimum in Newtonian flow.

Boyd has suggested that a close correlation may exist between such profiles, and profiles derived from exact pressure distributions, in supersonic flow.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1965

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