The Design and Development of a Hele-Shaw Apparatus for Flow Visualization

Abstract

A fluid flow mapper showing the exact solution of the two-dimensional potential flow streamline geometry about any arbitrary shape was constructed after the method of Hele-Shaw. Photographs were made of classical aerodynamic flow fields and an analysis to predict two-dimensional wind-tunnel boundary effects on streamline curvature was made. The application of potential flow theory to two-dimensional steady heat transfer was considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0268696

Entities

People

  • Henry J. Mehserle

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Heat Transfer
  • Layers
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Photographs
  • Potential Flow
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computer Vision.