Results and DiscussionBody shapes obtained by subjecting the class of shocks obtained as a solution in Ref. 1, to the inverse procedure of Maslen, agree very closely with the body shapes with which l it started. However, as anticipated, the pressure distribution along the body surface is different. Though for low shock curvature (lower value of a) the pressures are lower than those given by HSDT, for the higher curvature (a= 1), the induced pressures are higher than in Ref.l. It would appear that there exists a critical curvature corresponding to some value of a between 0.1 and 1 at which the pressures calculated by the two methods would compare.For a qualitative comparison, the pressures calculated using the modified Newtonian formula C p -C* p sin 2 0 b have also been shown in Fig. 3. For the higher curvature, the pressure so calculated predicts higher values than by the HSDT, as does the present analysis. As a further check, the body surface pressure is obtained using the laminar layer model. 3 Here, an impulse function Q is defined as Q= \ cos which leads to dO C p = 2 sm 2 6+2 sin 0 cos 0 --Applying this to an exponential shock, and interpreting the pressure as the sum of the Rankine-Hugoniot pressure immediately behind the shock and a centrifugal correction term, leads to the expression A e az
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