Boundary layer transition on slender cones in conventional and low disturbance mach 6 wind tunnels

32nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Horvath, Thomas J ^a   Berry, Scott A ^a   Hollis, Brian R ^a   Chang, Chau Lyan ^a   Singer, Bart A ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT TRANSFER; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION; ADIABATIC WALL TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FREESTREAM CONDITIONS; TOTAL TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; TRANSITION DETECTION; TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 85068813337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-2743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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