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Supersonic flow of a vibrationally relaxing gas past a circular cone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

James Kao  and
J. P. Hodgson
James Kao
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester, England Present address: Koninklijke/Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium, Volmorlaan 6, Rijswijk (Z.H.), Holland.
J. P. Hodgson
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester, England
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Abstract

The steady supersonic flow of a vibrationally relaxing gas past a cone is studied using numerical methods. Near the tip of the cone the flow is obtained by means of a coordinate expansion and built on to this is a characteristic network used to obtain the remainder of the flow. Of particular interest is the development of the frozen shock at the tip into a relaxation-dominated wave at distances large compared with the width of the wave. The numerical results are presented in a concise similarity form which will permit accurate extrapolation to very weak waves in atmospheric air.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , 13 April 1978 , pp. 519 - 542
Copyright
© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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