An Experimental Study of the Pressure and Heat-transfer Distribution on a 70° Sweep Slab Delta Wing in Hypersonic Flow

An Experimental Study of the Pressure and Heat-transfer Distribution on a 70° Sweep Slab Delta Wing in Hypersonic Flow
Author: Mitchel H. Bertram
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Total Pages: 136
Release: 1963
Genre: Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
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Results are presented for a study of the pressure and heat-transfer distributions and force characteristics of slab delta wings of 70° sweep at Mach numbers of 6.8 and 9.6 in air and 18 in helium. The wings had cylindrical leading edges and were tested with two different noses. One was sharp in plan view and the other was a tangent sphere with the same diameter as the cylindrical leading edge. Simple approaches to predicting the heat transfer are shown to be successful if the flow pattern peculiar to the angle-of-attack range under consideration is taken into account.