Experimental measurements were made of distance of transition to turbulence of wake behind spherical and blunted-cone models at hypersonic speeds in ballistic range; transition distances behind blunt bodies were found to be independent of body shape, whereas definite shape effect was observed for slender bodies; single shape parameter was determined which correlated successfully all slender body data; transition process was markedly different between blunt and slender body flows, transition occurring rather abruptly behind blunt bodies and being extended over many body diameters for slender bodies.


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    Title :

    Body-shape effects on axisymmetric wakes -- Transition


    Additional title:

    AIAA J


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 4 , n 10


    Publication date :

    1966


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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