Thermography allows for imaging the location of laminar-to-turbulent boundary layer transition on surfaces in air flows. The determination of BL transition of rotor blades was done in 2017 on the lower surface of a rotor blade in forward flight in the NASA Langley 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel Subsonic Wind Tunnel. This article reports on the follow-on experiment in the same facility and the same blades where thermography was performed on both upper and lower surface synchronously, with the upper surface mapped throughout the full azimuthal range. Blade-tracking rotating mirrors were used for each thermal camera and were synchronized for simultaneous image acquisition. Furthermore, the Differential Infrared Thermography (DIT) technique depicts the unsteady nature of the BL transition in forward flight. Results are presented and discussed. These data are the first ever recorded of both surfaces of a rotor in forward flight.


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    Title :

    Transition measurements of upper and lower rotor blade surfaces in forward flight with thermography


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    Conference:

    AIAA Aviation Forum ; 2020 ; Reno, NV (virtual), US


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    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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