Abstract
The drag coefficients and the patterns of supersonic flows around rectangular parallelepipeds (bodies with rectangular and square faces-bricks and tiles, respectively) were found from numerical experiments. These drag coefficients c x are considerably different from the values used, in particular, in the meteor-related literature to calculate the motion of brick-shaped meteor bodies. The values of c x and the flow pattern near the face of the body weakly depend on the relative size of the body within the parameter range considered.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Zhdan, V.P. Stulov, P.V. Stulov, L.I. Turchak, 2007, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2007, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 545–548.