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General text books on aerodynamics do not usually include a development of the theory behind the supersonic area rule.

  1. Von Karman, T: The Problem of Resistance in Compressible Fluids. R. Accad. d'Italia, Cl.Sci.Fis.Mat. e Nat., vol XIII,1935, pp210-265.
  2. Whitcomb,Richard T.: A Study of the Zero-Lift Drag-Rise Characteristics of Wing-Body Combinations Near the Speed of Sound. NACA Report 1273, 1956. (PDF,1140K)
  3. Jones, Robert T.: Theory of Wing-Body Drag at Supersonic Speeds. NACA Report 1284, 1956. (PDF,549K)
  4. Lomax, Harvard : The Wave Drag of Arbitrary Configurations in Linearized Flow as Determined by Areas and Forces in Oblique Planes. NACA RM A55A18, 1955.
  5. Whitcomb, Richard T., and Sevier, John R.: A Supersonic Area Rule and an Application to the Design of a Wing-Body Combination with High Lift-Drag Ratios. NASA TR R-72, 1960.
  6. Eminton,Evelyn: On the Minimisation and Numerical Evaluation of Wave Drag. Report No. Aero. 2564, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Nov 1955.
  7. Eminton, E., and Lord, W.T.: Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Wave Drag of Smooth Slender Bodies Using Optimum Area Distributions for Minimum Wave Drag. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, vol.60, no.541, Jan 1956, pp. 61-63.
  8. Harris, Roy V.,Jr.: An Analysis and Correlation of Aircraft Wave Drag. NASA TM X-947, March 1964.
  9. Nelson, R.L., and Welch, C.J.: Some Examples of the Transonic and Supersonic Area Rule. NASA TN D-446, 1964.
  10. Ashley, Holt and Landahl, Marten: Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies. Addison Wesley, 1965 (Now available from Dover in low-cost edition).
  11. Nielsen, Jack N. :Missile Aerodynamics. McGraw-Hill, 1960, pp 297-302. (Reprinted by NEAR, 1988). (Distributed by AIAA)
  12. COSMIC Program Distribution LAR-13666.
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