Two-Dimensional Subsonic Experiments with an NACA 0012 Airfoil

Abstract

Two-dimensional tests were made with a 6-inch chord NACA 0012 section in the Calspan 8-foot Transonic Wind Tunnel to obtain section data with minimum wall interference effects. The measurements included three - component force data, surface pressure distributions and oil flow observations, and were made at Mach numbers ranging from 0.4 to 0.95 and at a chord Reynolds number of 1,000,000. Comparisons of the lift curve data with available theory indicate that the results are within about 1% of being two-dimensional.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0775880

Entities

People

  • D. W. Chudyk
  • P. A. Catlin
  • R. J. Vidal

Organizations

  • Calspan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airfoils
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Boundary Layer
  • Corporations
  • Flow
  • Leading Edges
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shock Waves
  • Static Pressure
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.