Flow Control about an Airborne Laser Turret

Abstract

This thesis project is the latest in a series of experiments conducted at the Naval Postgraduate School to improve the air flow in which a laser beam propagates. The particular turret to be studied is currently employed on Airborne Laser Laboratory which is aboard the NKC-135 aircraft; a one-third scale model was constructed in the 5 x 5 foot wind tunnel. The objective is to decrease the optical path distortion and jitter resulting from turbulent flow in the aft hemisphere of the turret that houses the laser telescope.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123056

Entities

People

  • Larry E. Penix

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautics
  • Air Flow
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Incompressible Flow
  • Laser Beams
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Specific Heat
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • United States
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster