Lc. Squire, A REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF SOME SMALL HIGH-SPEED WIND TUNNELS IN AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH, Progress in aerospace sciences, 34(3-4), 1998, pp. 107-166
This presentation reviews the contribution made to aeronautical resear
ch by workers using the high-speed blowdown tunnels in the Engineering
Department at Cambridge. This work is chosen to illustrate the resear
ch potential of the many small tunnels in university departments exist
ing world-wide. Studies on basic boundary-layer research together with
extensions to complex shock/boundary-layer interactions are highlight
ed as are parametric studies of wing shapes for flight at high superso
nic speeds. It is concluded that workers using small high-speed tunnel
s still have a significant role to play in aeronautical research in sp
ite of recent developments in tunnel design which have lead to a new g
eneration of efficient large tunnels in which model tests on aircraft
at near flight Reynolds numbers are possible. (C) 1998 Published by El
sevier Science Ltd.