23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-3.7.1
HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER SIMULATION IN A TRANSONIC WIND TUNNEL BY SURFACE SUCTION
J. E. Green, M. Elliott, P. W. C. Wong
ARA, UK
Keywords: wind tunnel tests, high reynolds number, scale effect, porous boundary layer control
A method is described of using boundary layer suction in the wind tunnel to simulate aerodynamic behaviour at full scale. Comparisons between results on a model tested with suction in the ARA TWT and on one of the same geometry tested under cryogenic conditions in ETW demonstrate the feasibility of this form of simulation.
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