A Survey of Transition Research at AEDC.

A Survey of Transition Research at AEDC.
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1977
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This report presents a survey of experimental research on transition Reynolds numbers conducted in a large number of ground test facilities. Facilities surveyed included primary wind tunnels used for aerodynamic testing at subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic conditions. Measurements have been made on cones and planar bodies, flat plates and hollow cylinders. This report traces the work using cones, which has been more extensive. The primary motivation for this research spanning nearly 20 years has been to verify the adequacy of the facilities to simulate flight conditions. This necessarily entailed the study of free-stream disturbances in wind tunnels and the role these disturbances play in altering transition Reynolds number which must be considered when scaling Reynolds-number-sensitive data. Results presented include current experimental efforts as recent as September 1976. In addition to the cited references, a bibliography of relevant publications from AEDC has been included.

Laminar-turbulent Transition

Laminar-turbulent Transition
Author: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development
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Total Pages: 414
Release: 1977
Genre: Aeronautics
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Artificially Induced Boundary-layer Transition on Blunt-slender Cones Using Distributed Roughness and Spherical-type Tripping Devices at Hypersonic Speeds

Artificially Induced Boundary-layer Transition on Blunt-slender Cones Using Distributed Roughness and Spherical-type Tripping Devices at Hypersonic Speeds
Author: Albert H. Boudreau
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Total Pages: 50
Release: 1978
Genre: Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
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Research directed toward establishing criteria for distributed roughness-type boundary-layer trips on blunt-slender cones has been conducted in the AEDC/VKF at Mach numbers from 8 to 13. Results indicate that distributed roughness trips are superior to spherical-type trips in that equally effective distributed roughness trips are one-fifth as high and produce substantially smaller flow-field disturbances. Criteria are defined for optimum utilization of distributed roughness trips.