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Surface pressures and their corrections for the flow past a finite-length plate in supersonic low density flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

S. L. Gai
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Abstract

An experimental study of the flow past a thin finite length plate in a supersonic low density stream is reported. The paper discusses the corrections that are necessary for surface pressures measured under rarefied conditions. It is shown that the recent method of ‘orifice’ corrections due to Harbour & Bienkowski is versatile and reliable to use for both cold wall and insulated wall measurements. For the conditions of the experiment, the flow over the plate was found to be dominated by both leading-edge and trailing-edge interactions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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