NASA langley mach 6 quiet wind-tunnel performance

AIAA Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-28

  Blanchard, Alan E ^a,d   Lachowicz, Jason T ^b,c,d   Wilkinson, Stephen P ^c,e  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^e Flow Modeling and Control Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LAMINAR FLOW; NOZZLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSITION FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISCOSITY OF GASES; WALL FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

FREESTREAM DISTURBANCES; MACH NUMBER;

SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030824502     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.82     Document Type: Article

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