Test Section Turbulence in the AEDC/VKF Supersonic/Hypersonic Wind Tunnels

Abstract

Free-stream fluctuation measurements were made in the 40-in. Supersonic Tunnel (A) (at Mach numbers 1.5, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and in the 50-in. Hypersonic Tunnel (B) (at Mach numbers 6 and 8) of the von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility, Arnold Engineering Development Center, using a hot-wire anemometer probe and a dynamic pitot pressure probe. Supplementary surface pressure fluctuation measurements were made on a flat plate model, on the surface of a slender cone model, and in Tunnel A on the stilling chamber and nozzle walls. The results are presented and discussed, and the anemometer and dynamic pitot pressure measurements are compared.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA102615

Entities

People

  • D. K. Beale
  • J. C. Donaldson
  • W. T. Strike Jr.

Organizations

  • Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Test Facilities
  • Transducers
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Wind Tunnel Tests
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow