A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR SUPERSONIC CONICAL FLOW WITHOUT AXIAL SYMMETRY

Abstract

In this paper a numerical method for supersonic conical flow without axial symmetry was developed as follows: the governing equations for conical flow without axial symmetry were derived from a pair of stream functions of conical flow and a vorticity equation, and were transformed into Stocker & Mauger's coordinate system. By this method the numerical solutions were also presented for the supersonic flow past conical bodies which produced elliptic conical, nearly conical, and pseudo-triangular conical shock waves, and were compared with other investigator's solutions.