Accession Number:
AD0744859
Title:
Supersonic Turns without Superbooms
Descriptive Note:
Technical note
Corporate Author:
TORONTO UNIV DOWNSVIEW (ONTARIO) INST FOR AEROSPACE STUDIES
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Report Date:
1972-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
26.0
Abstract:
It is shown that focussed booms that arise in turning flight can be suppressed by the simple although not always practicable expedient of slowing down the aircraft. The correct deceleration will eliminate the local curvature of the wave front responsible for the focussing. Specifically, the tangential deceleration resolved along the normal to the wave front is adjusted to cancel out the centripetal acceleration similarly resolved. Horizontal turns of a prescribed limiting sharpness are not of concern for this suppression TECHNIQUE their focussed booms will be cut off from reaching the ground by atmospheric refraction. The minimum turn radius for focus cutoff is related herein in a simple fashion to the tabulated width of the sonic boom carpet for rectilinear flight, as a function of Mach number and altitude.
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Subject Categories:
- Acoustics