Shakedown & Determination of Tunnel Control Settings for Refurbished Trisonic Gasdynamic Facility (TGF)

Abstract

The Trisonic Gasdynamic Facility (TGF) had refurbishment completed in 2005 after being put into mothball status ten years prior. Upgrades during refurbishment to the tunnel and the loss of the old operations staff required the need for an initial set of tunnels runs to determine how to operate the facility, rediscover the limitations of the facility, and determine the correlation between the old documented control settings and the new systems. This control calibration also served as the initial shakedown of the refurbished tunnel, allowing technicians and engineers to cycle the systems and discover the best practices for operation and unresolved or unknown problems with the system. The shakedown initiated the reliable and successful operation of the TGF for future ground testing experiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA466325

Entities

People

  • Julie E. Saladin

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aerospace Craft
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Calibration
  • Compressors
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Static Pressure
  • Test Facilities
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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