This paper relates some of the encountered difficulties during an investigation to apply the ‘classic’ Von Kármán line source technique to a given ‘tear drop’ body of revolution. Finally it is shown how reasonable results were achieved together with some pressure-distributions.


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    Title :

    Incompressible potential flow solutions for given “Tear drop” bodies of revolution


    Subtitle :

    Von Kármán revisited


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1975-06-01


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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