Study of Self-Excited Pitch Oscillations of Conical-Spherical Body at Mach Number M = 1.75 and Two Moments of Inertia

Tests of a conical-spherical body in a supersonic wind tunnel were carried out on a free oscillation installation along the pitch angle at a Mach number M = 1.75 and two moments of inertia of the body relative to the axis of rotation. For a body with a large moment of inertia, self-oscillations with the amplitude of ca. 10 deg were obtained. For the first time, the phenomenon of degeneration of self-oscillations for a body with a smaller moment of inertia has been discovered. An attempt was made to model the phenomenon using an ordinary linear differential equation of the first order