Nonaxisymmetrical fuselage shape modification for drag reduction of low-sonic-boom airplane

AIAA Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1413-1420

  Makino, Yoshikazu ^a,b   Suzuki, Kenichiro ^a,b   Noguchi, Masayoshi ^a,b   Yoshida, Kenji ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Next Generation Supersonic Transport   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; LIFT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

MACH NUMBER; PRESSURE DRAG COEFFICIENT; SONIC BOOM;

FUSELAGES;

EID: 0041884861     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2109     Document Type: Article

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