Real-time wall interference correction system of the 12ft pressure wind tunnel

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Ulbrich, N ^a,b   Boone, A R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Calspan Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANGLE OF ATTACK; NASA; PROPULSION; TESTING; WAKES;

BLOCKAGE EFFECTS; LIFT FORCE; MODEL TESTS; POINT SOURCES; SOLID VOLUMES; THRUST FORCES; WALL INTERFERENCE; WALL PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 84983103175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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