ON THE POSSIBLE MODES OF FLOW ROUND TAPERED BODIES OF FINITE THICKNESS AT ARBITRARY SUPERSONIC VELOCITIES OF THE APPROACH STREAM

Supersonic planar flow round a symmetric tapered body is considered fo r which, at each point, the angle of inclination of the wall is less t han the limiting angle for the shock polar corresponding to the approa ch stream. It is shown that states of flow with the formation of both an attached shock wave (SW) of the strong family and a detached SW wit h subsequent subsonic flow between the shock wave, the body and the so nic line are impossible at any stream velocities. In essence, the resu lts obtained by Nikol'skii /1/ are transferred to the case of an arbit rary Mach number of the approach stream.