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Note on the Temperature Transients in a Supersonic “Blow-Down” Wind Tunnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

L. E. Leavy*
Affiliation:
Wind Tunnels, Aircraft Research Division, A. V. Roe and Co. Ltd.

Extract

In recent years, due to the high cost of continuous supersonic wind tunnels, much attention has been focused on the simpler intermittent “blow-down” tunnel.

Considerable data has been published on most aspects of the design of this type of equipment and quite a number of large installations have recently been brought into operation in the United States, with even larger numbers currently building both in this country and in the United States.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1958

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