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Effect of Wall Divergence on Sonic Flows in Solid Wall Tunnels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. Tirumalesa  and
B. Satyanarayana
D. Tirumalesa
Affiliation:
National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore
B. Satyanarayana
Affiliation:
National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore
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The effect of wall divergence (in excess of the normal value given for compensating the Boundary Layer growth on the tunnel walls), on the simulation of Sonic flows in solid wall wind tunnels is presented in this note which is a condensed version of Ref. 1.

Recently Spreiter showed that flows with free stream Mach number one can be simulated reasonably well in choked solid tunnels. Berndt and Petersohn showed that the thickening of the boundary layer on the walls of solid wall tunnels reduced the interference considerably. Wall divergence θg in excess of the normal one of about one degree (used for Boundary Layer compensation) may lead to favourable conditions for the thickening of the Boundary Layer and this appeared to be an interesting way of reducing the interference.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 66 , Issue 614 , February 1962 , pp. 125 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1962

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