Quiet Spike™ near field flight test pressure measurements with computational fluid dynamics comparisons

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Howe, Donald C ^a   Waithe, Kenrick A ^a   Haering Jr , Edward A ^b  

^a GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DESIGNS; AT-SPEED; AZIMUTHAL POSITION; CFD ANALYSIS; FLIGHT RESEARCH; FLIGHT TEST PROGRAMS; GULFSTREAM; NEAR FIELDS; PARALLEL PROPAGATION; RISETIMES; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SHOCK STRENGTH; SHOCK STRUCTURE; SPIKE FLOW; SUPERSONIC SPEED; TEST PROGRAM; THREE STAGES; WAVE PRESSURE;

AIRCRAFT; COALESCENCE; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; FUSELAGES; NASA;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 45849112782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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