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1151
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<TITLE>
experiments on supersonic blunt-body flows .
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<AUTHOR>
kendall,j.m.
</AUTHOR>
<BIBLIO>
j.p.l.prog. r.20-372, 1959.
</BIBLIO>
<TEXT>
  recently, progress has been made in the theoretical calculation of
the inviscid flow between the detached shock wave and the surface of
a blunt body travelling at supersonic speed .  detailed experimental
data are needed for comparison .  experiments have been made in the
supersonic wind tunnels of the jet propulsion laboratory on spheres,
disks, and blunted cones over the mach number range 1.8 to 5.0 in air .
surface pressures, shock wave shape and detachment distance, certain
velocity gradients, the sonic line location, and some streamline paths
were determined .  the sonic line is found as the trace of the termination
point of a weak shock generated by a probe ahead of the model .
for a sphere, good agreement between theory (of van dyke) and experiment
is found .
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