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Wind Tunnel Test Techniques

Design and Use at Low and High Speeds with Statistical Engineering Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 20, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Colin Britcher, Drew Landman
  • Language: English

Wind Tunnel Test Techniques: Design and Use at Low and High Speeds with Statistical Engineering Applications provides an up-to-date treatment of the topic. Beginning with a… Read more

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Description

Wind Tunnel Test Techniques: Design and Use at Low and High Speeds with Statistical Engineering Applications provides an up-to-date treatment of the topic. Beginning with a brief history of wind tunnels and its types and uses, the book goes on to cover subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic wind tunnel design and construction, calibration, boundary corrections, flow quality assessment, pressure surveys, and dynamic testing. It also focuses on wind tunnel facilities, making it useful for both the designer and operator. Engineers and graduate students in aerospace, automotive and similar programs will find this book useful in their work with experimental aerodynamics, gas dynamics, facility design and performance.

Key features

  • Deals with a broad range of flow speeds in wind tunnels, from low speed to high speed
  • Provides a discussion of similarity laws as well as material on statistical analysis
  • Includes coverage on facility-to-facility and facility-to-CFD correlation
  • Presents advanced topics such as cryogenic wind tunnels, ground simulation in automotive testing, and propulsion testing

Readership

Aerospace engineers; Automotive engineers; Wind tunnel testing professionals; graduate students conducting experimental aerodynamics; wind tunnel design engineers

Table of contents

SECTION 1 Introduction

1. A brief history of the genesis of wind tunnels

2. Types and uses of wind tunnels

3. Dynamic similarity

SECTION 2 Wind tunnel design and circuit aerodynamics

4. Subsonic wind tunnel design

5. Boundary interference assessment, alleviation, and correction

6. Model supports and support interference evaluation

7. Transonic wind tunnels

8. Supersonic wind tunnels

9. Hypersonic test facilities

10. Force and Moment Balances

11. Model design and construction

12. Special topics

SECTION 3 Operational and Test Procedures

13. Statistical Engineering Practices

14. Wind tunnel calibration

15. Flow quality assessment

16. Force and moment measurements

17. Facility instrumentation

18. Planning of Test Campaigns

SECTION 4 Wind tunnel test techniques

19. Pressure surveys

20. Dynamic testing

21. Facility-to-facility, facility-to-CFD, facility-to-flight correlation

SECTION 5 Measurement Techniques

22. Flow visualization

23. Nonintrusive quantitative flow field measurements

SECTION 6 Postscript

24. The role of CFD in aerodynamic research

25. The future of ground testing

SECTION 7 APPENDICES
A. A primer on statistical engineering
B. Strain-gage balance calibration example

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 20, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Colin Britcher

Associate Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA Dr. Britcher has more than 40 years’ experience in wind tunnel design and test techniques, starting as an undergraduate student. He has worked with a variety of facilities and applications, covering all speed ranges, including several NASA-funded projects.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

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Drew Landman

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Dr. Landman has more than 35 years’ experience on wind tunnel design, with an emphasis on experiment design and balance calibration. He was responsible for operations and test support of the "Langley Full-Scale Tunnel", the largest University operated wind tunnel in the world, prior to its decommissioning by NASA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

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