SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FORUM ON SONIC BOOM IMPACT RESEARCH |
Objective:
To exchange ideas and views on sonic boom impact research, and to identify
issues and topics of mutual interest to the participants.
In memoriam: Distinguished Professor Emeritus H.K. Cheng passed away in July 2007. His intellectual expertise, enthusiam, out-going recruitment of others and gregarious nature will be missed.
Contact: John Morgenstern, Phone: (661) 572-2358.
Sonic Boom Reference and Technical Papers (added AIAA2008-0057)
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SONIC BOOM FORUM
Format
and Setting
Forum meetings scheduled with designated or invited speakers on topics
proposed by participants.
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The home base of the forum is at the University of Southern California, where the regular meeting time is Thursday, approximately 2:00 - 5:00 PM.
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Some of the meetings are held at off-site locations of special interest, such as NASA Dryden Research Center , Lockheed Martin Aeronautics-Palmdale and Hubbs Sea World.
Focus
and Scope:
To elucidate unresolved and new issues critical to:
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environmental protection and conservation,
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sonic boom propagation and prediction,
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sonic boom alleviation and control.
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| Special Section Devoted to the F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (updated 07y12m24d)
In flight photograph of shocks from a T-38 Flying at Mach 1.1. For information on this full-scale schlieren image, click here, and then here. |
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http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/SonicBoom/
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