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Note on the Prediction of the Local Flow Conditions at the Crest of an Aerofoil Section in a Sonic Stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

N. Thompson
N. Thompson*
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Royal Aeronautical Society
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The pressure distribution on the surface of an aerofoil section at near sonic speeds is not sensitive to small changes in free-stream Mach number, and the distribution at M0=1.0 is often referred to as the sonic-range pressure distribution. Attempts to predict this form of pressure distribution have met with some success in the past, the work of Spreiter and Alksne, using an approximate solution of the non-linear equations of transonic small-disturbance theory, being of particular note. Reference 1 demonstrated the application of this theory to a family of non-lifting, sharp-nosed aerofoils and found good agreement with experiment at free-stream Mach numbers close to unity.

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Technical Notes
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 663 , March 1966 , pp. 444 - 446
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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