Design and Calibration of the ARL Mach 3 High Reynolds Number Facility

Abstract

The design philosophy and details of the ARL Mach 3 High Reynolds Number Facility are described and the results of extensive calibration tests are presented. The facility is an intermittent cold flow wind tunnel having a constant area test section 8 inches wide and 8.2 inches high, with a test rhombus 23 inches long. It operates in a blowdown mode using dry compressed air which is exhausted to the atmosphere through a silencer. Tunnel stagnation pressures range from 40 psia to 570 psia, with stagnation temperatures in a range from 400 degrees Rankine to 500 degrees Rankine depending upon ambient conditions. The corresponding free stream unit Reynolds numbers vary from 7 million per foot to 140 million per foot.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA009138

Entities

People

  • A. W. Fiore
  • D. G. Moore
  • D. H. Murray
  • J. E. West

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Construction
  • Control Systems
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • High Pressure
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Reynolds Number
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.