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Results from the Compressed Air Tunnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

The Compressed Air Wind Tunnel has now been in more or less regular use fpr a little over a year, during which time some interesting results have been accumulated. While these results are not yet by any means complete enough to enable an exhaustive study of scale effect to be made, they are nevertheless of sufficient extent to throw light on several points in respect to scale effect which have hitherto been somewhat obscure, and in particular to show more clearly the relative effects of scale and turbulence on the important phenomenon of the maximum lift of aerofoils.

It may be well to review briefly the history of the development of the Compressed Air Tunnel and to give a very short account of the construction of the tunnel at the N.P.L. and of the preliminary work associated with its special measuring apparatus, as no mention of these matters has yet been made in the Society's publications

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1935

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References

Note on page 3 * ' Electricity and Magnetism,' Clerk Maxwell, Vol. 11, p. 371.

Note on page 13 * R. & M. 1241.

Note on page 15 * R. & M. 597.