Boundary-layer stability measurements in a hypersonic quiet tunnel

AIAA Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2496-2500

  Lachowicz, Jason T ^a,b,c   Chokani, Ndaona ^a,c   Wilkinson, Stephen P ^b,c,d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Dept of Mech and Aerosp Eng ^*

^d Flow Modeling and Control Branch

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYPERSONIC FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SCHLIEREN SYSTEMS; TRANSITION FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

BOUNDARY LAYER DISTURBANCES; QUIET WIND TUNNELS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 0030405648     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.13430     Document Type: Article

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