Experimental investigation on turbulence intensity reduction in subsonic wind tunnels

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-147

  Ghorbanian, Kaveh ^a   Soltani, Mohammad Reza ^a   Manshadi, Mojtaba Dehghan ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contraction; Trip wire; Turbulence reduction; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT; CONTRACTION; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW UNIFORMITY; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSONIC WIND TUNNELS; TEST SECTIONS; TRIP WIRE; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE REDUCTION;

AERODYNAMICS; TURBULENCE; WIRE;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 79951557650     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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