Heat-Transfer Tests on a Full and 1/4 Scale AIM-9E Sidewinder Missile and a 1/15 Scale GBU-8 Guided Bomb Unit at Mach Numbers of 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5

Abstract

Heat transfer tests were conducted in the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Supersonic Wind Tunnel A on a 1/4 and full scale AIM- 9E Sidewinder Missile and a 1/15 scale GBU-8 Guided Bomb Unit. The purpose of the tests was to obtain heating distributions on the stores for wind tunnel/ flight correlation and as baseline data for input to an analytic thermal response code. Heat transfer coefficient, adiabatic wall temperature, and Schlieren/shadowgraph photographic data were obtained. Tests were conducted at Mach numbers 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 and free-stream unit Reynolds numbers of 1 x 10 to the 6th power to 5 x 10 to the 6th power. Model angle of attack was varied over the range from -2 to 4 degrees. In addition, performance evaluation tests were conducted on a stand-alone flight data system designed to gather flight test heat-transfer data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA091805

Entities

People

  • W. K. Crain

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Reduction
  • Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Free Stream
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Instrumentation
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Recording Systems
  • Reynolds Number
  • Test Facilities
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow