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Effect of viscosity on the lift-drag ratio of a thin blunt wing at hypersonic rates of flow round it

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The effect of viscosity on the carrying properties of hypersonic aircraft appears at great flight altitudes, where an important factor is the interaction of the laminar boundary layer with inviscid flow. In the present study the method of bands is used to make an approximate calculation of this effect for a regime of weak viscous interaction [1]. The results of [2] are used for conditions of inviscid flow round a body. The local coefficient of friction and coefficients of the additional pressure induced by the boundary layer are determined from the data for a plate of infinite width [3]. Simple relationships are obtained which make it possible to estimate the effect of viscosity on the magnitude of the maximum lift-drag ratio and the value of the angle of attack corresponding to it. The results are given of an experimental study of hypersonic flow round a plane triangular wing in a broad range of Reynolds numbers, and these confirm the relationships obtained and indicate the region in which they are applicable.

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  1. W. D. Hayes and R. F. Probstein, Hypersonic Flow Theory, Vol. 1, Academic Press (1967).

  2. V. S. Nikolaev, “Lift-drag ratio and balancing of a wing with blunt edges in a hypersonic flow,” Uch. Zap. TsAGI,18, 104 (1987).

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  3. V. S. Nikolaev, “Approximation equations for local aerodynamic characteristics of bodies such as a wing in a viscous hypersonic flow in a broad range of similarity parameters,” Uch. Zap. TsAGI,12, 143 (1981).

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    P. I. Gorenbukh & V. S. Nikolaev

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  1. P. I. Gorenbukh
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 149–152, November–December, 1988.

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Gorenbukh, P.I., Nikolaev, V.S. Effect of viscosity on the lift-drag ratio of a thin blunt wing at hypersonic rates of flow round it. Fluid Dyn 23, 924–927 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01051831

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