APPENDIX H Conical Shock Charts

Conical Shock Charts γ = 1.4

  1. Shock angle versus approach Mach number, with cone angle as parameter.
  2. Ratio of surface pressure to free stream stagnation pressure versus free stream Mach number.
  3. Surface Mach number versus free stream Mach number, with cone angle as parameter.
  4. Ratio of surface stagnation pressure to free stream stagnation pressure, with cone angle as parameter.
  5. Regions of shock attachment and detachment for cone and wedge.
  6. Pressure drag coefficient based on projected frontal area.
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From: A. H. Shapiro, The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Compressible Fluid

Flow, Vol. II, The Ronald Press Company, 1954.

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