From Summary: "An application of the method of characteristics is presented which affords a means for determining the surface pressures for a class of two-dimensional airfoils of given nose shape and arbitrary rear part in a sonic or supersonic stream if surface pressure data are given for one member of the class. For engineering purposes, the method of characteristics may be replaced by a simple application of Prandtl-Meyer flow concepts. An explanation of the nonlinear force characteristics of two-dimensional airfoils at transonic speeds is presented on the basis of sensitivity of these flows to changes in geometry and angle of …
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From Summary: "An application of the method of characteristics is presented which affords a means for determining the surface pressures for a class of two-dimensional airfoils of given nose shape and arbitrary rear part in a sonic or supersonic stream if surface pressure data are given for one member of the class. For engineering purposes, the method of characteristics may be replaced by a simple application of Prandtl-Meyer flow concepts. An explanation of the nonlinear force characteristics of two-dimensional airfoils at transonic speeds is presented on the basis of sensitivity of these flows to changes in geometry and angle of attack."
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Harder, Keith C. & Klunker, E. B.An application of the method of characteristics to two-dimensional transonic flows with detached shock waves,
report,
March 1953;
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