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Tactical missile aerodynamics - General topics. Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics. Vol. 141

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OSTI ID:7037366
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  1. Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co., Hampton, VA (United States)

The present volume discusses the development history of tactical missile airframes, aerodynamic considerations for autopilot design, a systematic method for tactical missile design, the character and reduction of missile observability by radar, the visualization of high angle-of-attack flow phenomena, and the behavior of low aspect ratio wings at high angles of attack. Also discussed are airbreathing missile inlets, 'waverider' missile configurations, bodies with noncircular cross-sections and bank-to-turn missiles, asymmetric flow separation and vortex shedding on bodies-of-revolution, unsteady missile flows, swept shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions, pylon carriage and separation of stores, and internal stores carriage and separation.

OSTI ID:
7037366
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English