WIND INSTRUMENTATION RESEARCH FACILITY AT WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE

Abstract

The Wind Instrument Research Facility, a closed circuit type of wind tunnel, was installed recently at White Sands Missile Range. It is utilized for calibration of, and research work on, wind instrumentation. Salient features are wind speeds from 0.5 to 85 mph with control capabilities of 0.1 mph increments in the low velocities, low turbulence levels in the 4 x 4 x 6 ft test section, and instrumentation including a Prandtl tube, a mean-velocity hot wire, and eddy-shed hot-wire wind speed measuring devices, a yaw probe directional device, and a turbulence hot wire system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0406707

Entities

People

  • James A. Martin
  • Roy I. Glass

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Calibration
  • Hot Wire
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • New Mexico
  • Research Facilities
  • Test Facilities
  • Tubes
  • Turbulence
  • Wind Tunnels
  • Wind Velocity
  • Wire

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.