A review is presented of the laboratory facilities and progress in research at the Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of Toronto. Lists of publications and theses are included. The progress reports are in the fields of flight mechanics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, spacecraft mechanics, and engineering physics. Some developments in 1991/92 include the first powered flight of a model ornithopter, development of a novel technique of modeling air cushion dynamics, successful tests of a simple and inexpensive aerostat design, a new semi-empirical method for providing accurate optimum efficiency predictions for propellers, development of a computer program to solve the compressible thin-layer Navier-Stokes equations on high-lift multi-element airfoil configurations, development of a time-of-flight system for measuring velocity and energy distribution of atomic oxygen beams, and commercial development of the first fiber optic strain gauges.
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
1993
124 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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