On Compressibility Corrections for Subsonic Flow Over Bodies of Revolution

• Author(s): Eric Reissner,
• Publisher: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
• Pages: 9
• Language: en

Description:... A study of the subsonic flow past an infinitely long corrugated circular cylinder is presented to show the relation between two-dimensional and axisymmetrical flow. In fact, a solution is obtained which contains as limiting cases both the Prandtl-Glauert correction for two-dimensional flow and the Gothert correction for flow past slender bodies of revolution. Included in the paper are velocity correction formulas for a cylinder with a single bump and for a corrugated cylinder in the presences of walls.