On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 14:47, Ian Woollard wrote:

> OTOH I found a water rocket web page that implies that the Cd for a nose 
> cone varies between
> 0.6 and 0.8 or so; and Randall was using 0.7 for his simulations (as was 
> I). I'm
> wondering if this figure only works at low mach, and as mach goes up the
> Cd goes down, or whether there's a scaling law; but that's a bit 
> speculative at this point.
> 

Looks like a misplaced decimal point. I have always seen Cd ~.06-.09 for
various cones. 

Dave
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