Wind-Tunnel Calibration Techniques

Abstract

Air-flow measuring instruments, their use, and the manner of working up and presenting the data obtained when calibrating low-speed, nearsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic wind tunnels are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0294167

Entities

People

  • Alan Pope

Organizations

  • AGARD

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Heat Capacity
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • National Security
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow