Bodies of revolution with minimum inviscid pressure drag are derived using hypersonic small-disturbance approximaton to shock-expansion method; solutions are examined for each of six optimization critera based on length, diameter, surface area, and volume; by use of method developed by A.Miele, each optimization problem is reduced to that of numerically minimizing product of nondimensional integrals; minimum-drag coefficients and corresponding optimum body shapes are computed over range of hypersonic Mach number similarity parameter at specific-heat ratios of 7/5 and 5/3; discussion of minimum drag solutions.


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    Title :

    Hypersonic minimum-drag slender bodies of revolution


    Additional title:

    AIAA J


    Contributors:
    Fink, M.R. (author)

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 4 , n 10


    Publication date :

    1966


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :