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The pressure distribution on dihedral wings at supersonic speed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Lu Ting
Lu Ting
Affiliation:
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
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Abstract

For wings with supersonic edges and with arbitrary dihedral, twist, camber and thickness distribution, the pressure distribution on the wing exterior to and along the two Mach lines emanating from the vertex of the wing is equal to the corresponding pressure distribution for a planar wing. The problem is to find the pressure distribution inside the two Mach lines. In the present paper, the unknown pressure distribution is approximated by an elementary function of the two surface variables. The (as yet undetermined) constants in the function are then found by the conditions: (i) that the function takes on the corresponding planar values along the two Mach lines, (ii) that it fulfils certain generalized integral relationships (Ting 1959), and (iii) that it satisfies the averaging property of solutions of the wave equation to be developed in this paper. The generalized integral relationship relates the integral of the pressure distribution along the line of intersection of a Mach plane with the wing to the integral along the same line of the prescribed normal velocity. The averaging property relates the pressure distribution along the line of intersection of the surface of the dihedral wing to that on a planar wing.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , August 1959 , pp. 302 - 312
Copyright
© 1959 Cambridge University Press

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