A Wind Tunnel Facility to Examine Flow Fields and Compute Profile Drag.

Abstract

This report describes a facility which has been developed for the S-1 Wind Tunnel at WSRL both to examine flow fields and to compute the profile drag of bodies by the wake traverse method. The emphasis in this report is on software as existing hardware was used and this has been documented elsewhere. Examples are given which demonstrate the generation of CALCOMP plots of a flow field parameter and the use of the facility in measuring the installed drag of externally carried stores on an aircraft. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA078401

Entities

People

  • G. H. S. Pike

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Flow
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Static Pressure
  • Test Facilities
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Fluid Dynamics.