Density distribution in a supersonic jet exhausting into vacuum from a nozzle with an inclined exit

Fairly effective methods have been developed to calculate axisymmetric jets of an inviscid perfect gas exhausting into vacuum, and approximations have also been obtained for the density field in such jets at large distances from the nozzle exit (see, for example, [1—3] and the bibliography in them). If the plane of the exit of the nozzle is not perpendicular to its axis, the flow in the jet is three dimensional. In a number of cases one can take into account the influence of the inclined exit with sufficient accuracy by a correction in the density distribution. An expression for such correction is given in the present paper. It is obtained on the basis of earlier calculations of the author [4], in which flow from a source was specified at the nozzle exit.