An Experimental Investigation of Transonic Flow Past Two-dimensional Wedge and Circular-arc Sections Using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

An Experimental Investigation of Transonic Flow Past Two-dimensional Wedge and Circular-arc Sections Using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Author: Arthur Earl Bryson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1951
Genre: Aerodynamic load
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Interferometer measurements are given of the flow fields near two-dimensional wedge and circular-arc sections at zero angle of attack. Pressure distributions and drag coefficients as functions of Mach number were obtained and the wedge data are compared with theory. It is shown that the local Mach number at any point on the surface of a finite three dimensional body or an unswept two-dimensional body, moving through an infinite fluid, has a stationary value at Mach number 1 and, in fact, remains nearly constant for a range of speeds below and above Mach number 1. On the basis of this concept and the experimental data, pressure distributions and drag coefficients for the wedge and circular-arc sections are presented throughout the entire transonic range of velocities.

Report

Report
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1958
Genre: Aeronautics
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General Theory of Wave-drag Reduction for Combinations Employing Quasi-cylindrical Bodies with an Application to Swept-wing and Body Combinations

General Theory of Wave-drag Reduction for Combinations Employing Quasi-cylindrical Bodies with an Application to Swept-wing and Body Combinations
Author: Jack N. Nielsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1956
Genre: Airplanes
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The wing-body interference theory of NACA TN 2677 applied to symmetrical wings in combination with quasi-cylindrical bodies permits the direct calculation of pressure-distribution changes produced by body shape changes. This theory is used to determine the relative magnitued of the wave-drag reduction produced by changes in cylinder cross-sectional area and that produced changes in cross-sectional shape (without change in area). The body distortion is expressed as a Fourier series, and an integral equation is derived for the body shape for minimum drag for each Fourier component. Thus the wave-drag reductions for the various Fourier harmonics are independent and additive.

General Theory of High Speed Aerodynamics

General Theory of High Speed Aerodynamics
Author: William Rees Sears
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400877555

Volume VI of the High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion series. This volume includes: physical and mathematical aspects of high speed flows; small perturbation theory; supersonic and transonic small perturbation theory; higher order approximations; nonlinear subsonic and transonic flow theory; nonlinear supersonic steady-flow theory; characteristic methods; flows with shock waves. Originally published in 1954. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Research Abstracts

Research Abstracts
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1951
Genre: Aeronautics
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Investigation of Statistical Nature of Fatigue Properties

Investigation of Statistical Nature of Fatigue Properties
Author: E. Epremian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 746
Release: 1952
Genre: Iron
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Extensive fatigue tests were made on annealed Armco iron and plain carbon and alloy steels heat-treated to different strengths and microstructures. Statistics of fatigue-fracture curves and endurance limits were determined from the experimental data obtained and, for various other materials, from a survey of literature. The results were analyzed to show the relative effects of various metallurgical factors on the statistical nature of fatigue properties. Other phases of the problem studied include: dependence of statistical variation in fatigue life on stress level in the fracture range, statistics for location of crack initiation, size effect, understressing effect, and the form and method of plotting the S-N diagram.