Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2006
The transient pressure field produced behind a plane shock wave of arbitrary strength, which encounters a slender supersonic cone head on, is theoretically predicted. The analysis is restricted to small cone angles (in order that Mach-reflexion will occur at the surface) and to inviscid flow.
A conical-flow technique is utilized to transform the small-perturbation equations of time-dependent rotational motion of the fluid behind the deflected plane shock into time-independent equations. From these equations, a boundary-value problem for pressure alone, in the Mach-reflexion region, is derived which is solved numerically. Results for the small perturbation pressure field of the cone are contrasted with Smyrl's (1963) results, which hold for a moving wedge, for a range of values of cone and plane shock speeds.
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