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Measurement of the Mean Pressure Distribution About a Double-wedge Strut in Turbulent Shear Flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

J T Turner ,
M H Turner  and
K J Williams
J T Turner
Affiliation:
Simon Engineering Laboratories, University of Manchester
M H Turner
Affiliation:
Simon Engineering Laboratories, University of Manchester
K J Williams
Affiliation:
Associated Octel Company, Bletchley
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Summary

Surface pressure distributions have been measured on a cylinder with a double-wedge cross section in a two-dimensional channel flow. The flow is sheared in the direction of the cylinder axis, using a grid of parallel wires with variable spacing, in order to simulate the type of geometry and velocity variation which occur for annulus support struts in turbomachines. The strut had a 38° included angle at the leading and trailing edges and an aspect ratio of 1.33 based on the maximum thickness. This was fixed between the parallel walls of a rectangular wind tunnel with end leakage eliminated. Surface pressure distributions were measured over a Reynolds number range of 0.5 × 105 to 1.5 × 105 for three different shear flow conditions. Despite the presence of sharp edges at the mid-chord position, delayed boundary-layer separation beyond the plane of maximum thickness has been found for sufficiently high spanwise shear in the upstream flow. Surprisingly, therefore, some similarity with previous results for struts of circular cross section appears to exist. The influence of the shear flow conditions on the pressure drag force has been determined by numerical integration of the data. Only a slight dependence on the upstream flow conditions is found, although the effect of secondary velocity components may still be observed if the spanwise variations in the local drag force are examined.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , August 1974 , pp. 155 - 364
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1974

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