Rehabilitation of the Altitude Wind Tunnel includes the need for new corner turning vanes to match its upgraded performance. The design and experimental performance results from a 0.1-full scale model of the highest speed corner (M = 0.35) are presented and discussed along with some two dimensional inviscid analyses of two vaned corners. With a vane designed by an inverse two dimensional technique, the overall corner loss was about 12% of the inlet dynamic pressure of which about 4% was caused by vane skin friction. Comparable values with a conventionally designed circular arc vane were about 14% overall with about 7% due to skin friction.


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    Title :

    Wind tunnel turning vanes of modern design


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace Sci. Meeting ; 1986 ; Reno, NV, United States


    Publication date :

    1985-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English