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The Delta Wing in a Non-UniformSupersonic Stream*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

G. N. Lance
G. N. Lance*
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Department of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

A generalised conical field theory is developed and is applied to delta wings in a non-uniform stream. It is shown that a non-uniform stream may be characterised by the downwash at all points in space. The lift of a delta wing is found when the downwash in the wing plane is given as a power series in the co-ordinates in the wing plane. The basis of the conical field theory is described in some detail but the results only of the calculation of the lift distribution for various down washes are given. The solutions of certain integral equations, required in the calculations, are given in the Appendix.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , May 1954, pp. 55 - 72
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1954

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This paper is a shortened version of Part III of a Ph.D. thesis approved by the University of London; it was written while the author was at King's College, London.

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