Browsing by Subject "wind tunnel testing"
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(2013-05-15)A key remaining challenge in the design of hypersonic vehicles is the incomplete understanding of the process of boundary-layer transition. Turbulent heating rates are substantially higher than those for a laminar boundary ...
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(2014-08-12)The immense fuel savings and environmental benefits of reducing aircraft skin-friction drag through laminar flow is well known. However, obtaining substantial laminar flow on an aircraft in an operational environment has ...
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(1980)As relatively large models are often used in wind tunnel testing, the effects of the confining walls must be determined for effective test data correction. Corrections and predictions for flow about a flat plate normal to ...
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(2012-10-19)Infrared transition location estimates can be fast and useful measurements in wind tunnel and flight tests. Because turbulent boundary layers have a much higher rate of convective heat transfer than laminar boundary layers, ...
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(2016-12-12)One explanation for wind turbine power degradation is insect roughness. Historical studies on insect-induced power degradation have used simulation methods which are either unrepresentative of actual insect roughness or ...
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(2011-08-08)Active flow control has been extensively explored in wind tunnel studies but successful in-flight implementation of an active flow control technology still remains a challenge. This thesis presents implementation of active ...