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Simulated Hypersonic Flows About A Blunt Body

Paul Kutler, H. C. Yee, G. H. Klopfer

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Unsteady and steady flows compared. Report describes computer numerical study of two-dimensional, unsteady, viscous, hypersonic flows of air about blunt body with impinging shock. This kind of flow represents many practical phenomena; for example, interaction of fluctuating bow shock of hypersonic airplane with shocks of leading edge of wing or of lip of cowl at inlet to engine. Such interactions give rise to complicated, moving shock-on-shock patterns.

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Key concepts: Hypersonic speed, Shock (circulatory), Mechanics, Bow shock (aerodynamics), Aerospace engineering, Flow (mathematics), Physics, Shock wave