Vacuum Equipment Used in the Ballistic Research Laboratories' Supersonic Wind Tunnels

Abstract

A pressure measuring facility is described with emphasis on adequacy of primary standard type devices for referencing all pressures of interest in wind tunnel testing. These devices are described and include commercially available and in-house fabricated systems. The lowest range standard is patterned on a similar National Bureau of Standards device.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0740741

Entities

People

  • Howard A. Ricci

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Calibration
  • Gages
  • Ion Pumps
  • Ionization Gages
  • Magnetic Materials
  • Manometers
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Research Facilities
  • Standards
  • Tubes
  • Vacuum
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow