On boattail bodies of revolution having minimum wave drag
Description:
The problem of determining the shape of slender boattail bodies of revolution for minimum wave drag has been reexamined. It was found that minimum solutions for Ward's slender-body drag equation can exist only for the restricted class of bodies for which the rate of change of cross-sectional area at the base is zero. In order to eliminate this restriction, certain higher order terms must be retained in the drag equation and isoperimetric relations. The minimum problem for the isoperimetric cond…
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Date:
June 8, 1955
Creator:
Harder, Keith C. & Rennemann, Conrad, Jr.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department