A Symposium on Transonic Flow Research.
Abstract
This report documents the organization and operation of the 'Transonic Perspective' conference held at NASA/Ames Research Center, February 19-20, 1981. After a period of decline in the 1960's transonic flow research has made rapid progress in the last decade. This is partly due to a renewed interest in the transonic regime for both military and civil aircraft and partly to the availability of large computers, which gave considerable impetus to the development of numerical prediction methods for realistic flows. However, not all the significant research of the decade is in the field of predictive methods; other topics such as experimental techniques for unsteady transonic flows and the super-critical wind technology, are also of importance. Much of the work in the various sub-topics of transonic flow research is done by small groups and sometimes these groups operate in relative isolation to other work in other topics. It is suggested, sometimes, that research workers concentrate on their own speciality so much that they consider their achievements as ends in themselves, rather than relating their results to the dominant problem of understanding and prediction of real, practical, transonic flow problems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA104871
Entities
People
- David Nixon
Organizations
- Nielsen Engineering & Research (United States)