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A Note on Shock Detachment Distance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
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There have been numerous attempts to predict the stand—off distance of bow shock waves, ranging from the exact solutions of the inviscid flow equations by Mangier (1959) and Van Dyke (1959) to the semi—empirical treatment of Moeckel (1949) and Love (1957). Sinnott (1959) has recently proposed a single formula Δ/R=K cot θm where K is a numerical constant given as 0·77 for axisymmetric bodies and the symbols are defined in Fig. 1.
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