Investigation of the Aerodynamic Characteristics at High Supersonic Mach Numbers of a Family of Delta Wings Having Double-wedge Sections with the Maximum Thickness at 0.18 Chord

Investigation of the Aerodynamic Characteristics at High Supersonic Mach Numbers of a Family of Delta Wings Having Double-wedge Sections with the Maximum Thickness at 0.18 Chord
Author: Mitchel H. Bertram
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Total Pages: 58
Release: 1954
Genre: Aerodynamics, Supersonic
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A program to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of a family of delta wings with a blunt double-wedge section has been conducted at the Langley 11-inch hypersonic tunnel. These wings had a maximum thickness of 8 percent of the chord located at the 18-percent-chord point. For the wings tested at a Mach number of 6.9, the semiapex angle was varied from 5 to 30 degrees and the wings were tested over a range of angle of attack from 0 to 28 degrees and Reynolds numbers in the range of 800,000 to 3,600,000 based on root chord. In addition, pertinent results from tests at Mach number as low as 1.62 have been utilized. The shock-expansion theory and the Newtonian impact theory have been used to analyze the effects of changes made in the various parameters investigated.

NASA Technical Note

NASA Technical Note
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Total Pages: 386
Release: 1965
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Research Abstracts and Reclassification Notice

Research Abstracts and Reclassification Notice
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Total Pages: 716
Release: 1956
Genre: Aeronautics
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Results of a Flight Investigation to Determine the Zero-Lift Drag Characteristics of a 60 Deg Delta Wing with NACA 65-006 Airfoil Section and Various Double-Wedge Sections at Mach Numbers from 0.7-1.6

Results of a Flight Investigation to Determine the Zero-Lift Drag Characteristics of a 60 Deg Delta Wing with NACA 65-006 Airfoil Section and Various Double-Wedge Sections at Mach Numbers from 0.7-1.6
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Results of an exploratory free-flight investigation at zero lift of several rocket-powered drag-research models equipped with 60 deg sweptback delta wings are presented for a Mach number range from about 0.70 to 1.60. The airfoil sections tested included the NACA 65-006 and a series of double-wedge sections with various thicknesses and positions of maximum thickness. The results of the investigation showed that, of the double-wedge sections with 6 percent thickness, the two sections with positions of maximum thickness at 20 and 50 percent of the chord had drag coefficients approximately equal through the transonic and supersonic Mach number range and had similarly occurring drag rises. The section with position of maximum thickness at 80 percent chord had a drag rise occurring at a Mach number M of approximately 0.15 lower than the drag rise of the other two sections. At M = 1.0, this section had drag coefficients more than twice as large as those of the other two sections; however, this difference decreased with increasing supersonic Mach numbers. The wing drag calculated by the linearized theory was in qualitative agreement with the test results in indicating the effects of varying the position of maximum thickness. The double-wedge section of 5 percent thickness with position of maximum thickness at 50 percent chord had fairly constant drag coefficients throughout the supersonic region, which ranged from about 50 to 80 percent of the drag coefficients for the similar section with twice the thickness ratio. The theoretical wing drag for this section was in very good agreement with the experimental value. The NACA 65-006 airfoil section had lower drag coefficients throughout the test region than any of the double-wedge sections of the same thickness ratio, although at the highest Mach numbers covered by these tests, the differences became very small.