DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS AND METHODS FOR LOW-DENSITY WIND TUNNELS OPERATING WITH HIGH STAGNATION TEMPERATURES

Abstract

A study was made of design techniques for low density wind tunnels operating with high stagnation temperatures and hypersonic flow. An approximate boundary layer analysis was developed to predict feasible ranges of operating conditions for low-density wind tunnels. Detailed calculations were made for three nozzles including boundary layer corrections for isentropic contours.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0404810

Entities

People

  • A. E. Bergles
  • G. A. Brown

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Free Stream
  • High Temperature
  • Knudsen Number
  • Laminar Boundary Layer
  • Mach Number
  • Stagnation Pressure
  • Stagnation Temperature
  • Static Pressure
  • Test Facilities
  • Thermodynamic Properties
  • Wind Tunnel Nozzles
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow