A water tunnel facility at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility is described. This water tunnel facility, the Flow Visualization Facility, is used primarily for visualizing and analyzing vortical flows on aircraft models and other shapes at high incidence angles. The tunnel is used extensively as a low cost diagnostic tool to help understand complex flows over aircraft and other full scale vehicles. The facility consists primarily of a closed circuit water tunnel with a 16 in by 24 in vertical test section. The velocity of the flow through the test section can be varied from 0 to 10 in/sec, however 3 in/sec has been found to be optimum for flow visualization. This corresponds to a unit Reynolds number of 23,000 per foot and a turbulence level over the majority of the test section below .05%. Flow visualization techniques described include the dye tracer, laser light sheet and the shadowgraph techniques. Limited correlation to full-scale flight data is shown.


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    Titel :

    Description of the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1994-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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