ON SUPER- AND HYPERSONIC PROPAGATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE WITHOUT FORMATION OF STRONG SHOCK WAVES
A. F. Alexandrov, I. B. Timofeev, S. N. Chuvashev
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
At experiments with movement of plasma bodies in the atmosphere, regimes have been found at which no strong shock waves are registered by a sensitive diagnostic set up. It corresponds with a concept of drag reduction that had been recently suggested by the authors