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A high-lift building block flow: turbulent boundary layer relaminarization
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Nelson, Robert C. Bourassa, Corey Thomas, Flint O. |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Description | A working wind tunnel test facility has been constructed at the University of Notre Dame's Hessert Center. The relaminarization test facility has been constructed in the 1.5m x 1.5m (5ft x 5 ft) atmospheric wind tunnel and generates a Re(theta)=4694 turbulent boundary layer in nominally zero-pressure gradient before it is exposed to the Case #1 pressure gradient (K approximately equal to 4.2 x 10(exp -6), which is believed to be sufficient to achieve relaminarization. Future work to be conducted will include measuring the response of the turbulent boundary layer to the favorable pressure gradients created in the test facility and documenting this response in order to understand the underlying flow physics responsible for relaminarization. It is the goal of this research to have a better understanding of accelerated turbulent boundary layers which will aid in the development of future flow diagnostic utilities to be implemented in applied aerodynamic research. |
| File Size | 351889 |
| Page Count | 9 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20020062050 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t59d1wj5t |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2001-07-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics Root-mean-square Errors Atmospheric Circulation Computational Fluid Dynamics Skin Friction Reynolds Number Wind Tunnel Tests Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Characteristics Viscous Flow Lift Pressure Gradients Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |