Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5472110 | Acta Astronautica | 2017 | 77 Pages |
Abstract
A waverider is any supersonic or hypersonic lifting body that is characterized by an attached, or nearly attached, bow shock wave along its leading edge. As a waverider can possess a high lift-to-drag ratio as well as an ideal precompression surface of the inlet system, it has become one of the most promising designs for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles. This paper reviews and classifies waverider design methodologies developed by local and foreign scholars up until 2016. The design concept of a waverider can be summarized as follows: modeling of the basic flow field is used to design the waverider in the streamwise direction and the osculating theory is used to design the waverider in the spanwise direction.
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Authors
Feng Ding, Jun Liu, Chi-bing Shen, Zhen Liu, Shao-hua Chen, Xiang Fu,