Waverider Configurations Derived from Inclined Circular and Elliptic Cones

Lifting-body wavender configurations, with curved surfaces and known pressure fields and shock-layer structures, are constructed from stream surfaces generated by means of supersonic flows past inclined circular and elliptic cones. The conical flowfields are perturbations of the basic axisymmetric cone flow arising from small angle of attack and small cross-sectional eccentricity. The approximate results are analytic and in the form of hypersonic small-disturbance theory. Formulas are presented that determine how the Mach number, angle of attack, cross-sectional eccentricity, and characteristic cone angle affect the waverider shape, pressure distribution, and shock-layer structure.

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