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The Flow Past a Delta-Wing-Half-Cone Combination with Subsonic Leading Edges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

H. Portnoy
H. Portnoy*
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Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford, Lancashire
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Summary

The flow past an unyawed, flat, delta wing with subsonic edges, carrying a slender half-cone mounted centrally underneath, is found by using the method of supersonic conical flows. The wing plane is taken to be at zero incidence, but it is shown that wing incidence, camber, twist and thickness effects may be incorporated by superimposing on this solution the field of the isolated wing with these properties. The results are shown to agree with previous work on configurations with sonic or supersonic leading edges for the common case of sonic edges. The leading edge loading may be made zero to secure attached flow at any lift coefficient by using camber and incidence, but it is shown that there is a certain positive lift coefficient for which a negative incidence alone will suffice.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , November 1964, pp. 311 - 327
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1964

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