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The Fan Dynamometer

Some Notes on Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

J. Lawrence Hodgson
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Extract

The investigation described below was undertaken in order to obtain a more accurate knowledge than can be obtained from any published results as to how the resisting torque due to the blades of a fan dynamometer varies with their shape and size, with the diameter of the fan, and with the density of the fluid in which the blades rotate.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 77 , March 1916 , pp. 20 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1916

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page 20 note * A list of the symbols used is given at the end of the Paper.

page 22 note * In the author's experiments N varied for any one fan over a range of 1 : 3 ; in Messrs. Morgan and Wood's experiments over a range of 1 : 2. These ranges are too small to prove that: the N2 law is followed exactly.