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An inviscid description of separated flow over elliptic cones at incidence in terms of vortex sheets and line vortices is developed within the framework of slender-body theory and with emphasis on solutions with lateral asymmetry. It is demonstrated that grossly asymmetric solutions with smooth separation exist for circular cones over a range of values of the incidence parameter, and properties of these solutions are displayed. For a typical incidence parameter and fixed symmetric separation position, it is shown that asymmetric solutions for elliptic cones only exist for cross-sectional thickness ratios greater than a critical value, at which they appear to bifurcate from the symmetric solution branch.
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Fiddes, S.P., Smith, J.H.B. (1987). Asymptotic Separation from Slender Cones at Incidence. In: Smith, F.T., Brown, S.N. (eds) Boundary-Layer Separation. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83000-6_21
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