This study describes a methodology and gives an example of a simplified analysis to determine the steady propagation speed of a projectile fired into a gaseous mixture of fuel and oxidizer. For tractability, the steady supersonic flow of an inviscid calorically perfect ideal reacting gas with high activation energy over a symmetric double wedge, unconfined by a cowl, is considered. A search of ...

This study describes a methodology and gives analysis to determine the steady propagation speed of a projectile fired into a gaseous mixture of fuel and oxidizer. For tractability, the steady supersonic flow of an inviscid calorically perfect ideal reacting gas with high activation energy over a symmetric double wedge, unconfined by a cowl, is considered. Propagation speeds are found which give...

This note discusses the flow near the trailing edge of a two-dimensional aerofoil moving at a free-stream Mach number close to unity, for cases where the effects of viscosity are slrall. A qualitative argument, which is supported by experimental evidence, suggests that the local Mach number downstream of the trailing-edge shock waves is approximately independent of tie-stream Mach number, a&rof...

A new turbulence model suited for calculating the turbulent Prandtl number as part of the solution is presented. The model is based on a set of two equations: one governing the variance of the enthalpy and the other governing its dissipation rate. These equations were derived from the exact energy equation and thus take into consideration compressibility and dissipation terms. The model is used...

Mach wave radiation in a turbulent fully expanded supersonic jet is revisited. Our goal is to determine the extent to which predictions for the radiated sound that are based on linearized analysis agree with solution of the full nonlinear equations. To this end, we solve the linearized Navier-Stokes equations (LNS) with precisely the same mean flow and inflow disturbances as a previous direct n...

The feasibility of detecting small molecules such as pesticides using optical evanescent-wave sensors is discussed with emphasis on the Mach-Zehnder sensor and a newly developed sensor called a ‘critical’ sensor. For direct detection of an estimated average pesticide layer growth of 2X 10m4 nm, the sensitivity of the Mach-Zehnder sensor is almost adequate (lx lo-” nm within one hour), whereas t...