Hostname: page-component-669899f699-2mbcq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-24T20:35:16.685Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

From Ship-Accompanying Waves to Shock Waves of Supersonic Aeroplanes

Part of: RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Robert G. Legendre
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

When I was invited to deliver the Lanchester Memorial lecture, I wondered why the great honour of being the first Frenchman selected for the celebration of the deeds of a great engineer was conferred on me. However, I am well aware that the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society cannot make a mistake and there is good reason to choose, after so greatly famed professors, an engineer of the French Navy to illustrate, using a slightly different point of view, the influence of Lanchester on the development of aeronautics. This way, I do not have to apologise for a possible inadequacy which then would not be my own responsibility. I have only to do my best, so as not to betray the confidence of the Society.

Answering so plainly this first question, I had to find out how to fulfil my task. Possibly, my contribution to the intrepretation of the vortex sheets starting from the thin leading edges of a delta wing is more in the Lanchester line of thought than it is an extension of Prandtl’s inferences.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 66 , Issue 615 , March 1962 , pp. 163 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1962

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1898—Michell, H.. The Wave Resistance of Ships, Phil. Mag., London.Google Scholar
1907—Lanchester, F. W.. Aerodynamics, Constable.Google Scholar
1908—Havelock, T. H.. Propagation of Waves, Proc. Roy. Soc., London; Wave Making Resistance of Ships, Proc. Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1915—Lanchester, F. W.. A Note on the Subject of Skin Friction, M.I.C.I.Google Scholar
1916—Lamb, H.. On Wave Patterns Due to a Travelling Disturbance, Phil. Mag., London.Google Scholar
1917—Havelock, T. H.. Initial Wave Resistance of Moving Surface Pressure, Proc. Roy. Soc., London; Some Cases of Wave Motion Due to a Submerged Body, Proc. Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1918—Green, G.. Wave Resistance of a Submerged Sphere, Phil. Mag., London.Google Scholar
1923—Havelock, T. H.. Studies in Wave Resistance, Proc. Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1923—Hogner, F.. A Contribution to the Theory of Ship Waves, Ark. Mat. a Fys., Stockholm.Google Scholar
1924—Hogner, F.. Ueber die Theorie von einer Shiff erzeugten Wellen, Int. Mech. Congr.Google Scholar
1924—Munk, M.. The Simplifying Assumptions Reducing the Strict Application of Classical Hydrodynamics to Practical Aeronautical Computations, N.A.C.A. T.N. 207.Google Scholar
1925—Hogner, F.. Contribution to the Theory of Ship Waves, Acad. disc.Google Scholar
1925—Havelock, T. H.. Effect of Parallel Middle Body, Proc Roy Soc., London; Effect of Variable Draught, Proc Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1926—Havelock, T. H.. Some Cases of Unsymmetrical Forms, Proc. Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1926—Wigley, W.. Ship Wave Resistance, Trans. I.N.A.Google Scholar
1926—Lamb, H.. On Wave Resistance, Proc. Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1927—Havelock, T. H.. The Method of Images, Proc. Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1927—Wigley, W.. Ship Wave Resistance, Trans. I.N.AGoogle Scholar
1928—Hogner, F.On the Theory of Ship Wave Resistance, Ark. för Mat., Stockholm.Google Scholar
1928—Havelock, T. H.. Wave Resistance, Proc. Roy. Soc., London; The Wave Pattern of a Doublet in a Stream, Proc Roy. Soc., London.Google Scholar
1929—Weinblum, G.. Anwendung der Michellsen Widerstand Theorie, Shiffbau.Google Scholar
1930—Wigley, W.. Shifts wellen Wiederstand weiteres Vergleiche, W.R.H.Google Scholar
1931—Wigley, W.. Ship Wave Resistance, N.E.C. Inst.Google Scholar
1932—Von Kármán, TH.. Resistance of Slender Bodies Moving with Supersonic Velocities, Trans. A.S.M.E.Google Scholar
1932—Hogner, F.. Eine Interpolation Formel für den Wellen Widerstand von Schiffen, S.B.T.G.Google Scholar
1932—Wigley, W.. A Note on Ship Wave Resistance, Hamburg Cong.Google Scholar
1932—Hogner, F.. Schiffsform und Wellen Widerstand, Hamburg Cong.Google Scholar
1932—Weinblum, G.. Schiffsform und Wellen Widerstand, S.B.T.G.Google Scholar
1932—Brard, R.. Note sur la Théorie des Hélices, A.T.M.A.Google Scholar
1933—Barrillon, E.. Calcul de la part de résistance due aux vagues formées par le navire, Science et Industrie.Google Scholar
1937—Lanchester, F. W.. The Part Played by Skin Friction in Aeronautics, Proc. I.A.E.Google Scholar
1940—Guilloton, R.. A New Method of Calculating Wave Profiles and Wave Resistance of Ships, Trans. I.N.A., London.Google Scholar
1943—Havelock, T. H.. The Approximate Calculation of Wave Resistance at High Speed, N.E.C., I.E.S.Google Scholar
1945—Lighthill, M. J.. Supersonic Flow Past Bodies of Revolution, A.R.C., R. and M. 2003.Google Scholar
1945—Lamb, H.. Hydrodynamics.Google Scholar
1945—Ward, G. N.. Supersonic Flow Past Slender Pointed Bodies, J. Mech. and App. Math.Google Scholar
1948—Riesz, M.. L'intégrale de Liouville et l’équation des ondes, Acta Math.Google Scholar
1949—Wigley, W.. L'état actuel des calculs de résistance de vagues, A.T.M.A.Google Scholar
1949—Germain, P.. Théorie générate des écoulements coniques, Publication ONERA No. 34.Google Scholar
1951—Havelock, T. H.. Wave Resistance and its Application to Ship Problems, T. NAME.Google Scholar
1951—Jones, R. T.. The Minimum Drag of Thin Wings in Supersonic Flow, J.A.S.Google Scholar
1952—Roy, M.. Caractères de l'écoulement autour d'une aile en flèche accentuée, C.R.AcSc.Google Scholar
1952—Jones, R. T.. Properties of Low Aspect Ratio Pointed Wings, N.A.C.A.; Theoretical Determination of the Minimum Drag of Airfoils, J.A.S.Google Scholar
1952—Guilloton, R.. A Note on the Experimental Determination of Wave Resistance. J. Brit. Ship Ass.Google Scholar
1954—Weinblum, G.. A Systematic Evaluation of Michell's Integral, D. TAYLOR, Model Basin Report.Google Scholar
1956—Guilloton, R.. Compléments sur le potentiel linéarisé avec surface libre appliqué à l'étude des carènes, A.T.M.A.Google Scholar
1957—Inui, T.. New Theory of Wave Resistance, J. Josen Kiakoi.Google Scholar
1958—Weinblum, G.. Application of Wave Resistance Theory to Problems of Ship Design, Trans. I.E.S.S.Google Scholar
1959—Nikitina, E.. Résistances opposées aux navires en eau calme, Izv. Akad. Nauk. SSSR.Google Scholar
1959—Sretensku, L.. Sur la résistance d'onde d'un navire, Izv. Akad. SSSR.Google Scholar
1960—Timman, R.. A Solution of the Minimum Wave Resistance Problem.Google Scholar
1960—Lighthill, M. J.. Mathematics and Aeronautics, 48th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1960.Google Scholar
1960—Guilloton, R.. Les vagues de sillage, A.T.M.A.Google Scholar
1961—Fenain, M.. La théorie des écoulements à potentiel homogène, Progress in Aeronautical Sciences, Pergamon Press.Google Scholar