Supersonic Area Rule References

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, pp.210-265.
2. Whitcomb, Richard T.: A Study of the Zero-Lift Drag-Rise Characteristics of Wing-Body Combinations Near the Speed of Sound. NACA Research Memorandum L52H08, September 3, 1952.
3. Nelson, Robert L.: Large-Scale Flight Measurements of Zero-Lift Drag at Mach Numbers from 0.86 to 1.5 of a Wing-Body Combination having a 60-degree Triangular Wing with NACA 65A003 Sections. NACA Research Memorandum L50D26, June 1, 1950.
4. Morrow, John D. and Nelson, Robert L.: Large-Scale Flight Measurements of Zero-Lift Drag of 10 Wing-Body Configurations at Mach Numbers from 0.8 to 1.6. NACA Research Memorandum L52D18a, January 15, 1953.
5. Lomax, Harvard: The Wave Drag of Arbitrary Configurations in Linearized Flow as Determined by Areas and Forces in Oblique Planes. NACA Research Memorandum A55A18, 1955.
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. Byrd, Paul F.: Theoretical Wave Drag of Shrouded Airfoils and Bodies. NACA Technical Note 3718, June 1956.
9. 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.
10. Jones, Robert T.: Theory of Wing-Body Drag at Supersonic Speeds. NACA Report 1284, 1956.
11. Whitcomb, Richard T.: A Fuselage Addition to Increase Drag-Rise Mach Number of Subsonic Airplanes at Lifting Conditions. NASA Technical Note 4290, June 1958.
12. Levy, Lionel L.: Supersonic and Moment-of-Area Rules Combined for Rapid Zero-Lift Wave-Drag Calculations. NASA Memorandum 4-19-59A, June 1959.
13. 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 Technical Report 72, 1960.
14. Nielsen, Jack N.: Missile Aerodynamics. McGraw-Hill, 1960, pp 297-302. (Reprinted by NEAR, 1988). (Distributed by AIAA)
15. Dickey, Robert R. and Levy, Lionel L., Jr.: The Effect on the Drag of a Wing-Body Combination of Moment-Of-Area-Rule Modifications with Pods Ducted to Simulate Engine Nacelles. NASA Technical Note D-308, February 1960.
16. Lord, W.T.: On the Design of Wing-Body Combinations of Low Zero-Lift Drag Rise at Transonic Speeds. R. & M. No. 3279, Ministry of Aviation Aeronautical Research Council, 1962.
17. Eminton, Evelyn: On the Numerical Evaluation of the Drag Integral. R. & M. No. 3341, Ministry Of Aviation Aeronautical Research Council 1963.
18. Harris, Roy V.,Jr.: An Analysis and Correlation of Aircraft Wave Drag. NASA Technical Memorandum X-947, March 1964.
19. Nelson, R.L., and Welch, C.J.: Some Examples of the Transonic and Supersonic Area Rule. NASA Technical Note D-446, 1964.
20. Ashley, Holt and Landahl, Marten: Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies. Addison Wesley, 1965 (Now available from Dover in low-cost edition).
21. COSMIC Program Distribution LAR-13666.
22. Barger, Raymond L. and Adams, Mary S.: Fuselage Design for a Specified Mach-Sliced Area Distribution. NASA Technical Paper 2975, February 1990.
23. Barger, Raymond L.: Method for Designing Blended Wing-Body Configurations for Low Wave Drag. NASA Technical Paper 3261, 1992.
24. Rallabhandi, Sriram K. and Mavris, Dimitri N.: An Unstructured Wave Drag Code for Preliminary Design of Future Supersonic Aircraft. AIAA-2003-3877, June 2003.