Measuring Skin Friction Drag over a Flat Plate Using Thin Oil Film Interferometry

Abstract

Skin friction drag is a difficult aerodynamic property to measure on a wind tunnel model and hard to predict using computational fluid dynamics. One solution which may help improve and/or solve some of these issues is an experimental method called Thin Oil film Interferometry (TOFI).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 04, 2012
Accession Number
AD1029764

Entities

People

  • Chris Luke
  • Robert Decker
  • Stephanie Sexton

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Competition
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Drag
  • Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Friction
  • Interferometry
  • Models
  • Physics
  • Skin Friction
  • Wind Tunnel Models
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Tribology (the study of the boundary interaction between sliding surfaces, lubrication, wear and friction).