The shock-shock interaction problem for weak incident waves impinging on a supersonic cone has been examined. The purpose of this study was to establish methods for predicting surface pressures since existing methods have been found inadequate for practical problems with weak blast waves. It is shown that one-dimensional theory fails when the components normal to the surface of the flight velocity and of the blast particle velocity become comparable. As ...
This report presents the results of wind tunnel tests of 16 proposed hypervelocity 105 mm projectile configurations. The tests were conducted during September 1962 on a 48% scale model at Mach numbers of 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0 in the Ballistic Research Laboratories Tunnel No. 1. Results are presented as plotted data. All the configurations can be made gyroscopically stable; presently available data indicates that they are also dynamically stable. (Author) ...
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