The present study deals with the problem of aerodynamic interference of multi-body combination in rocket-vehicles moving at supersonic or high-subsonic speed. An analysis is made by using slender-body theory for a vehicle composed of a main rocket and two side-boosters, all of them being the bodies of revolution located parallel in a plane.
The interference potential functions are obtained as polynomials of sources and sinks for axial flow, and those of doublets for cross flow, applying the MILNE-THOMSON's circle theorem to the flow in each cross-sectional plane.
Thus, the variation of normal and side forces acting on the main body and boosters are calculated for a given angle of attack with the change of bank angle.,
Extension of the present method will make it possible to analyse the case of a vehicle with more than three bodies, e.g., the case of cluster type of vehicle.
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