A comprehensive study is made of factors influencing the accuracy of predicted thickness effects on the flow due to oscillatory motion of a sweptback wing in supersonic flight. For a delta planform with its leading edge swept at or near the Mach angle, the streamlines and velocity pattern due to thickness are found to be highly three-dimensional. Based on this observation, improvements are suggested to previous approximate second-order theories for the unsteady loading. Numerical examples are presented for a 45 deg della which indicate a substantial difference between the linearized and nonlinear pressure distributions. Although a greater volume of computation is needed to guarantee adequate accuracy, practical means are described for the complete numerical solution of problems of this type.

This paper describes the experimental methods used to determine the surface temperatures and heat-transfer coefficients at the leading edge, and elsewhere over the surface, of a specially designed double-edge wedge shell specimen subjected to cyclic heating in a high velocity hot gas stream generated by a burner rig. The methods included temperature measurements with thermocouples (embedded below the surface) as well as surface temperature measurements by optical pyrometry. The experiments were carried-out at gas temperatures between 806 to 1323 °C and velocities in the range from Mach 0.32 to Mach 0.39. The calibration procedures for each method, the various testing conditions to which the airfoil-like specimen was exposed and the results pertaining to the determination of the surface temperatures and heat-transfer coefficients are described and discussed.

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