6-4. Sonic boom

Supersonic Aerodynamics pioneers:

A. Busemann, R. T. Jones, R. Whitcomb, A. R. Seebass,...

Supersonic transport and the Sonic Boom

 

Bow shock wave reaching ground

Concorde sonic boom

Minimum drag bodies in supersonic flow

The Area Rule

F-5 aircraft with lower sonic boom signature

Recent research on Sonic Boom

2015