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APPENDIX 1 

 CALCULATION PROCEDURE 



For convenient reference, the various steps for computing the viscous drag of bodies 

 of revolution in axisymmetric flow are listed here, 

 1. Prescribed Data 



a. Profile dimensions 



b. Pressure distribution 



2^ 

 c. Body Reynolds number 





[8] 



R, =^ [38] 



2. Transition Point 



a. Neutral stability point 



'°'(il 



(1) fffl = /(— I is computed from 



(2) ii ^= f(^] is computed from 



V dx \L I 



e^ dv l^\j^ SlU COS. , , 



(3) Ra = fl^ ^|is plotted to intersect the neutral stability curve of Figure 3 



^ \v dx I 



to give (^)^ 



b. Self-excited transition point 



'"'(f). 



