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A Method for Designing Wind Tunnel Contractions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

R. Harrop
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Summary

The contraction of a wind tunnel should be free from adverse pressure gradients, since this might cause boundary layer separation.

A wall contour has been designed for a circular cross-section contraction using incompressible flow theory. This gave a favourable pressure gradient at the beginning of the contraction where separation is likely to occur.

Appendix I compares the theory with experimental results obtained from a model of a proposed supersonic tunnel of which the contraction is rectangular in cross-section and which has been based on the results obtained in this report.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 55 , Issue 483 , March 1951 , pp. 169 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1951

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