Application of oil-film interferometry skin-friction measurement to large wind tunnels

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 717-725

  Driver, D M ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; SHOCK WAVES; THIN FILMS; WIND TUNNELS;

OIL-FILM INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; OIL FILM; SHOCK WAVE; SKIN FRICTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0038720054     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-003-0613-1     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Dow Corning (1994) Information about Dow Corning silicone fluids. Dow Corning Corp, Midland, MI
2. Drake A, Kennelly RA Jr (1999) Oil film interferometry for skin friction measurement on an aircraft in flight. J Aircraft 36:723-725
3. Garrison TJ, Ackman M (1998) Development of a global interferometer skin-friction meter. AIAA J 36:62-68
4. Kennelly RA Jr, Westphal RV, Mateer GG, Seelen J (1995) Surface oil film interferometry on a swept wing model in supersonic flow. In: Crowder JP (ed) Flow visualization VII, Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on flow visualization. Begell House, New York, pp 302-307
5. Monson DJ, Mateer GG, Menter PR (1993) Boundary-layer transition and global skin friction measurement with an oil-fringe imaging technique. SAE paper 932550
6. Monson DJ (1983) A nonintrusive laser interferometer method for measurement of skin friction. Exp Fluids 1:15-22
7. Naughton JW, Brown JL (1996) Surface interferometric skin-friction measurement technique. AIAA paper 96-2183
8. Tanner LH, Blows LG (1976) A study of the motion of oil films on surfaces in air flow, with application to the measurement of skin friction. J Phys E 9:194-202
9. Wadcock AJ, Yamauchi GK, Driver DM (1999) Skin friction measurements on a rotor in hover. J Am Helicopter Soc 44:312-319
10. Zilliac GG (1996) Further developments of the fringe-imaging skin friction technique. NASA TM 110425