A TRAVERSING PROBE FOR PITOT-PRESSURE MAPPING IN A HYPERVELOCITY TUNNEL

Abstract

An account is given of the design, construction, and operation of a multi-probed axially traversing pitot-pressure rake, which was designed to measure wake pressure profiles behind models in the Stanford sparkheated wind tunnel. Criteria considered in the design of the traversing probe are discussed. The mechanical operation of the probe during bench tests and during initial experiments in the tunnel is described, and velocity-time diagrams are given. Examples of the pressure data that have been taken in the wake behind a cylindrical model are presented and discussed briefly.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0423947

Entities

People

  • B. T. Alligood
  • D. W. Tsao
  • J. B. Kyser

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bearings
  • Bench Tests
  • Construction
  • Deceleration
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Friction
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Leading Edges
  • Materials
  • Oscillographs
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Transducers
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow