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  • 101
    Publication Date: 2018-12-01
    Description: Tests results at the NASA Langley Research Center, involving a Mach 3.5 pilot quiet tunnel, have shown that laminar-layered nozzle walls improve boundary layer stability and reduce stream disturbance levels caused by eddy Mach wave radiation. This type of wall design is required to obtain transition Reynolds numbers on tests models as high as those previously observed in supersonic flight vehicles. The Mach 3.5 pilot nozzle wall boundary layers were tested for Tollmein-Schlichting and Goertler linear amplification, and, in an analysis of Goertler vortices in two axisymmetric Mach 5 nozzles, transition values were found to vary. These values were applied to several nozzles with similar throat heights but different expansion rates. Among the nozzles included in the study, a flat-wall radial flow nozzle and a proposed rod-wall nozzle were tested. For the highest test unit Reynolds number, it was determined that the nozzle wall surface finish should not exceed 0.3 micron. Oil flow studies have indicated that Goertler vortex disturbances were the dominant mechanism causing transition on the walls of the pilot nozzle.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
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  • 102
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Aerodynamic surface heating rate distributions in three dimensional shock wave boundary layer interaction flow regions are presented for a generic set of model configurations representative of the aft portion of hypersonic aircraft. Heat transfer data were obtained using the phase change coating technique (paint) and, at particular spanwise and streamwise stations for sample cases, by the thin wall transient temperature technique (thermocouples). Surface oil flow patterns are also shown. The good accuracy of the detailed heat transfer data, as attested in part by their repeatability, is attributable partially to the comparatively high temperature potential of the NASA-Langley Mach 8 Variable Density Tunnel. The data are well suited to help guide heating analyses of Mach 8 aircraft, and should be considered in formulating improvements to empiric analytic methods for calculating heat transfer rate coefficient distributions.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-87453 , RM-799 , NAS 1.15:87453
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  • 103
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: By testing configurations in a gas (like CF4) which can produce high normal-shock density ratios, such as those encountered during hypersonic entry, certain aspects of real-gas effects can be simulated. Results from force-moment, shock-shape and oil flow visualization tests are presented for both the Shuttle Orbiter and a 45 deg sphere-cone in CF4 and air at M = 6, and comparisons are made with flight results. Pitching-moment coefficients measured on a Shuttle Orbiter model in CF4 showed a nose-up increment, compared with air results, that was almost identical to the difference between preflight predictions and flight in the high hypersonic regime. The drag coefficient measured in CF4 on the 45 deg sphere-cone, which is the same configuration used on the forebody of the Pioneer Venus entry vehicles, showed excellent agreement with flight data at M = 6.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0489
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  • 104
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Numerical methods for calculating laminar and turbulent boundary layer development around vertical-short take off and landing engine inlets at high incidence angles are investigated. Various transition models were compared and evaluated in calculations off flow separation bound inside the inlet. Results of the transition effects on the boundary layer characteristics at onset of separation for two types of engine inlet geometries are presented. Some of the numerical results are compared with existing wind-tunnel test data for scaled inlet models to demonstrate the effects of transition models in the numerical scheme. The effects of transition modeling on the boundary layer development are illustrated for typical engine operating conditions.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0432
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  • 105
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions of the supersonic shear flow past a circular cylinder are obtained. These solutions are used to study the basic flow structure around the cylinder. Both the inviscid and viscous calculations show the formation of a large recirculating flow region around the front stagnation point. The calculations further show that the overall size of the recirculating region is approximately the same for the Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions but the inside structure is quite different. The inviscid flow shows only one vortex whereas the viscous flow shows two vortices inside the recirculating flow region. The inner vortex in the Navier-Stokes solution is formed primarily due to the viscous effects near the body surface and its size depends upon the Reynolds number. It is found that with increasing Reynolds number, the inner vortex diminishes in size and the Navier-Stokes solution asymptotically approaches the Euler solution. These results indicate that the Euler equations may correctly predict certain high Reynolds number separation phenomenon in flows with natural inviscid vorticity source.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0339
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  • 106
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A large-scale ground-effects test of a single jet in hover was conducted as a first-case study for future tests to provide the V/STOL community with an improved data base. The objectives for this single-jet hover test were to (1) document the jet characteristics and then (2) gather the associated force data. These data are then compared with results obtained from existing prediction methods. A conically convergent nozzle was mounted to a turbojet engine, and an 8-ft-diam suckdown-plate model measured the lift-loss forces in ground effect. Jet-exit characteristics (pressure profile, temperature, turbulence, etc.) are documented for several nozzle pressure ratios. Characteristics that may give rise to scale effects are discussed. Results from this first study indicate that small-scale tests, and current prediction methods, will lead to significant errors in the lift-loss estimation of a single-jet configured aircraft, hovering in ground effect.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0336
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  • 107
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Aerodynamic data for the DFVLR R4 airfoil are presented in both graphic and tabular form. The R4 was tested in the Langley 0.3-Meter Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel (TCT) at Mach number from 0.60 to 0.78 at angles of attack from -2.0 to 8.0 degrees. The airfoil was tested at Reynolds numbers of 4, 6, 10, 15, 30, and 40 million based on the 152.32 mm chord.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85739 , NAS 1.15:85739
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  • 108
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Finite-difference calculations require the generation of a grid for the region of interest. A zonal approach, wherein the given region is subdivided into zones and the grid for each zone is generated independently, makes the grid-generation process for complicated topologies and for regions requiring selective grid refinement a fairly simple task. This approach results in new boundaries within the given region, that is, zonal boundaries at the interfaces of the various zones. The zonal-boundary scheme (the integration scheme used to update the points on the zonal boundary) for the Euler equations must be conservative, accurate, stable, and applicable to general curvilinear coordinate systems. A zonal-boundary scheme with these desirable properties is developed in this study. The scheme is designed for explicit, first-order-accurate integration schemes but can be modified to accommodate second-order-accurate explicit and implicit integration schemes. Results for inviscid flow, including supersonic flow over a cylinder, blast-wave diffraction by a ramp, and one-dimensional shock-tube flow are obtained on zonal grids. The conservative nature of the zonal-boundary scheme permits the smooth transition of the discontinuities associated with these flows from one zone to another. The calculations also demonstrate the continuity of contour lines across zonal boundaries that can be achieved with the present zonal scheme.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0164
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  • 109
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Vortex flow modeling is used to calculate the steady inviscid incompressible flow past one, two and three delta wing configurations. The wings are modeled with vortex lattices and the leading and trailing-edge sheets are modeled by segmented straight vortex filaments. Aerodynamic characteristics are obtained for a range of geometry and angle of attack.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0136
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  • 110
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A nonlinear aerodynamic analysis technique based on the full potential equation in conservative form has been modified to permit treatment of supersonic flows with embedded subsonic regions (typically near the fuselage-canopy juncture and the wing leading edge). Solution procedures for the equations do not require any specific form of geometry or physical grid system. This results in the capability to analyze easily very complex geometries provided the posed problem lies within the isentropic restrictions of the full potential theory. Characteristic signal propagation theory is used to monitor the type dependent flow and a conservative switching scheme is employed to transition from the supersonic marching algorithm to a subsonic relaxation procedure and vice versa. An implicit approximate factorization scheme is used to solve the finite-difference equations. These modifications now permit analysis of fully three-dimensional flowfields including the interference effects due to lifting surface wakes. Improved grid generation capability allows analysis of complete complex aircraft geometries (fuselage, wing, tail, wing wake, and tail wake). Results are presented showing very good correlations with experimental surface pressure data and aerodynamic force data at both design and off-design operating points. Configurations examined include several waverider concepts, an arrow wing-body with wake, an advanced tactical fighter concept, and a fighter forebody-canard configuration.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0139
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  • 111
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A theoretical and experimental program to assess the effect of leading-edge load constraints on wing design and performance was conducted. For a planform characterized by a highly swept leading edge on the inboard region, linear theory was used to design camber surfaces which produced minimum drag-due-to-lift at the design lift coefficient of 0.08 and a design Mach number of 2.4. In an effort to delay the formation of leading edge vortices which often occur on highly swept wings, two approaches were used in the design criteria to limit the loadings on the leading edge. One wing was constrained to have the normal Mach number less than one everywhere along the leading edge and the second wing was constrained to have a pressure coefficient of zero on the leading edge. Force tests were run on the two constrained wings, on a flat reference wing and on an optimized wing with no leading edge constraints. All wings had identical planforms and thicknesses and were tested over a range of Mach numbers from 1.8 to 2.8 and a range in angles of attack from -5 deg to 8 deg. A comparison of the experimental performance of these four models is shown. Correlations of these results with theoretical predictions and flow visualization photographs are also included.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0138
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  • 112
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The flow field within an unsteady, two-dimensional inlet is studied numerically, using a two dimensional Navier Stokes and a one-dimensional inviscid model. Unsteadiness is introduced by varying the outflow pressure boundary condition. The cases considered include outflow pressure variations which were a single pressure pulse, a rapid increase and a sine function. The amplitude of the imposed exit plane pressure disturbance varied between 1 percent and 20 percent of the mean exit pressure. At the higher levels of pressure fluctuation, the viscous flow field results bore little resemblance to the inviscid ones. The viscous solution included such phenomena as shock trains and bifurcating separation pockets. The induced velocity at the outflow plane predicted by the viscous model differs significantly from accoustical theory or small perturbation results.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0031
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  • 113
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Previously cited in issue 15, p. 2347, Accession no. A82-31965
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA Journal (ISSN 0001-1452); 22; 83-89
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  • 114
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A review of some effects of Reynolds number on selected aerodynamic characteristics of two- and three-dimensional bodies of various cross sections in relation to fuselages at high angles of attack at subsonic and transonic speeds is presented. Emphasis is placed on the Reynolds number ranges above the subcritical and angles of attack where lee side vortex flow or unsteady wake type flows predominate. Lists of references, arranged in subject categories, are presented with emphasis on those which include data over a reasonable Reynolds number range. Selected Reynolds number data representative of various aerodynamic flows around bodies are presented and analyzed and some effects of these flows on fuselage aerodynamic parameters are discussed.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-3809 , NAS 1.26:3809
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  • 115
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A three-dimensional viscous computer code (VANS/MD) was employed to calculate the turbulent flow field at the end wall leading edge region of a 20 inch axial annular turbine cascade. The initial boundary layer roll-up and formation of the end wall vortices were computed at the vane leading edge. The calculated flow field was found to be periodic with a frequency of approximately 1600 Hz. The calculated size of the separation region for the hub endwall vortex compared favorably with measured endwall oil traces. In an effort to determine the effects of the turbulence model on the calculated unsteadiness, a laminar calculation was made. The periodic nature of the calculated flow field persisted with the frequency essentially unchanged.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-168275 , NAS 1.26:168275 , USAAVSCOM-TR-84-C-3 , AD-A145641
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  • 116
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A quantitative comparison between the Euler and full potential formulations with respect to speed and accuracy is presented. The robustness of the codes used is tested by a number of transonic airfoil cases. The computed results are from four transonic airfoil computer codes. The full potential codes use fully implicit iteration algorithms. The first Euler code uses a fully implicit ADI iteration scheme. The second Euler code uses an explicit Runge Kutta time stepping algorithm which is enhanced by a multigrid convergence acceleration scheme. Quantitative comparisons are made using various plots of lift coefficient versus the average mesh spacing along the airfoil. Besides yielding an asymptotic limit to the lift coefficient, these results also demonstrate the truncation error behavior of the various codes. Quantitative conclusions regarding the full potential and Euler formulations with respect to accuracy, speed, and robustness can be presented.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85983 , A-9816 , NAS 1.15:85983
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  • 117
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The concept of artificial intelligence as it applies to computational fluid dynamics simulation is investigated. How expert systems can be adapted to speed the numerical aerodynamic simulation process is also examined. A proposed expert grid generation system is briefly described which, given flow parameters, configuration geometry, and simulation constraints, uses knowledge about the discretization process to determine grid point coordinates, computational surface information, and zonal interface parameters.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85976 , A-9798 , NAS 1.15:85976
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  • 118
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The development and application of transonic small disturbance codes for computing two dimensional flows, using the code ATRAN2, and for computing three dimensional flows, using the code ATRAN3S, are described. Calculated and experimental results are compared for unsteady flows about airfoils and wings, including several of the cases from the AGARD Standard Aeroelastic Configurations. In two dimensions, the results include AGARD priority cases for the NACA 64A006, NACA 64A010, NACA 0012, and MBB-A3 airfoils. In three dimensions, the results include flows about the F-5 wing, a typical wing, and the AGARD rectangular wings. Viscous corrections are included in some calculations, including those for the AGARD rectangular wing. For several cases, the aerodynamic and aeroelastic calculations are compared with experimental results.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85986 , A-9822 , NAS 1.15:85986
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  • 119
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A computationally efficient body analysis designed to couple with a comprehensive helicopter analysis is developed in order to calculate the body-induced aerodynamic effects on rotor performance and loads. A modified slender body theory is used as the body model. With the objective of demonstrating the accuracy, efficiency, and application of the method, the analysis at this stage is restricted to axisymmetric bodies at zero angle of attack. By comparing with results from an exact analysis for simple body shapes, it is found that the modified slender body theory provides an accurate potential flow solution for moderately thick bodies, with only a 10%-20% increase in computational effort over that of an isolated rotor analysis. The computational ease of this method provides a means for routine assessment of body-induced effects on a rotor. Results are given for several configurations that typify those being used in the Ames 40- by 80-Foot Wind Tunnel and in the rotor-body aerodynamic interference tests being conducted at Ames. A rotor-hybrid airship configuration is also analyzed.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85934 , A-9704 , NAS 1.15:85934
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  • 120
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The general principles of artificial intelligence are reviewed and speculations are made concerning how knowledge based systems can accelerate the process of acquiring new knowledge in aerodynamics, how computational fluid dynamics may use expert systems, and how expert systems may speed the design and development process. In addition, the anatomy of an idealized expert system called AERODYNAMICIST is discussed. Resource requirements for using artificial intelligence in computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics are examined. Three main conclusions are presented. First, there are two related aspects of computational aerodynamics: reasoning and calculating. Second, a substantial portion of reasoning can be achieved with artificial intelligence. It offers the opportunity of using computers as reasoning machines to set the stage for efficient calculating. Third, expert systems are likely to be new assets of institutions involved in aeronautics for various tasks of computational aerodynamics.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85994 , A-9807 , NAS 1.15:85994
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  • 121
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A multi-stage Runge-Kutta method is analyzed for solving the Euler equations exterior to an airfoil. Highly subsonic, transonic and supersonic flows are evaluated. Various techniques for accelerating the convergence to a steady state are introduced and analyzed.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172398 , NAS 1.26:172398 , ICASE-84-32
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  • 122
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The interference drag in a wing fuselage juncture as simulated by a flat plate and a body of constant thickness having a 1.5:1 elliptical leading edge is evaluated experimentally. The experimental measurements consist of mean velocity data taken with a hot wire at a streamwise location corresponding to 16 body widths downstream of the body leading edge. From these data, the interference drag is determined by calculating the total momentum deficit (momentum area) in the juncture and also in the two dimensional turbulent boundary layers on the flat plate and body at locations sufficiently far from the juncture flow effect. The interference drag caused by the juncture drag as measured at this particular streamwise station is -3% of the total drag due to the flat plate and body boundary layers in isolation. If the body is considered to be a wing having a chord and span equal to 16 body widths, the interference drag due to the juncture is only -1% of the frictional drag of one surface of such a wing.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-3811 , NAS 1.26:3811
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  • 123
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Numerical simulations of three dimensional flows in a prototype adaptive wall wind tunnel are conducted at the Mach number of 0.6 to investigate: (1) wind tunnel wall interference, (2) active streamline control by varying air removal or injection along the walls, and (3) to develop a method for establishing wall boundary conditions for interference free flows. Wind tunnel wall interference could be controlled by using only the vertical velocity components. For the configuration tested, interference free flow with solid sidewalls can be approximated by using only floor and ceiling blowing/suction.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2351 , A-9622 , NAS 1.60:2351
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  • 124
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An analysis has been developed and a computer code written to predict three-dimensional subsonic or transonic potential flow fields about lifting or nonlifting configurations. Possible condfigurations include inlets, nacelles, nacelles with ground planes, S-ducts, turboprop nacelles, wings, and wing-pylon-nacelle combinations. The solution of the full partial differential equation for compressible potential flow written in terms of a velocity potential is obtained using finite differences, line relaxation, and multigrid. The analysis uses either a cylindrical or Cartesian coordinate system. The computational mesh is not body fitted. The analysis has been programmed in FORTRAN for both the CDC CYBER 203 and the CRAY-1 computers. Comparisons of computed results with experimental measurement are presented. Descriptions of the program input and output formats are included.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-3814 , NAS 1.26:3814 , D6-52329
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  • 125
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An acoustic muffler design of a research tool for studying laminar flow and the mechanisms of transition, the Laminar Flow and Transition Research Apparatus (LFTRA) is investigated. Since the presence of acoustic pressure fluctuations is known to affect transition, low background noise levels in the test section of the LFTRA are mandatory. The difficulties and tradeoffs of various muffler design concepts are discussed and the most promising candidates are emphasized.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172374 , NAS 1.26:172374
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  • 126
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Calculated unsteady aerodynamic characteristics for four Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research Development (AGARD) standard aeroelastic two-dimensional airfoils and for one of the AGARD three-dimensional wings are reported. Calculations were made using the finite-difference codes XTRAN2L (two-dimensional flow) and XTRAN3S (three-dimensional flow) which solve the transonic small disturbance potential equations. Results are given for the 36 AGARD cases for the NACA 64A006, NACA 64A010, and NLR 7301 airfoils with experimental comparisons for most of these cases. Additionally, six of the MBB-A3 airfoil cases are included. Finally, results are given for three of the cases for the rectangular wing.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85817 , NAS 1.15:85817
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  • 127
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    Description: The transition to turbulence in boundary layers was investigated by direct numerical solution of the nonlinear, three-dimensional, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half-infinite domain over a flat plate. Periodicity was imposed in the streamwise and spanwise directions. A body force was applied to approximate the effect of a nonparallel mean flow. The numerical method was spectra, based on Fourier series and Jacobi polynomials, and used divergence-free basis functions. Extremely rapid convergence was obtained when solving the linear Orr-Sommerfeld equation. The early nonlinear and three-dimensional stages of transition, in a boundary layer disturbed by a vibrating ribbon, were successfully simulated. Excellent qualitative agreement was observed with either experiments or weakly nonlinear theories. In particular, the breakdown pattern was staggered or nonstaggered depending on the disturbance amplitude.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85984 , A-9796 , NAS 1.15:85984
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  • 128
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A practical solution, adaptive-grid method utilizing a tension and torsion spring analogy is proposed for multidimensional fluid flow problems. The tension spring, which connects adjacent grid points to each other, controls grid spacings. The torsion spring, which is attached to each grid node, controls inclinations of coordinate lines and grid skewness. A marching procedure was used that results in a simple tridiagonal system of equations at each coordinate line to determine grid-point distribution. Multidirectional adaptation is achieved by successive applications of one-dimensional adaptation. Examples of applications for axisymmetric afterbody flow fields and two dimensional transonic airfoil flow fields are shown.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85989 , A-9803 , NAS 1.15:85989
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  • 129
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An airfoil which has particular application to the blade or blades of rotor aircraft and aircraft propellers is presented. The airfoil thickness distribution, camber and leading edge radius are shaped to locate the airfoil crest at a more aft position along the chord, and to increase the freestream Mach number at which sonic flow is attained at the airfoil crest. The reduced slope of the airfoil causes a reduction in velocity at the airfoil crest at lift coefficients from zero to the maximum lift coefficient. The leading edge radius is adjusted so that the maximum local Mach number at 1.25 percent chord and at the designed maximum lift coefficient is limited to about 0.48 when the Mach number normal to the leading edge is approximately 0.20. The lower surface leading edge radius is shaped so that the maximum local Mach number at the leading edge is limited to about 0.29 when the Mach number normal to the leading edge is approximately 0.20. The drag divergence Mach number associated with the airfoil is moved to a higher Mach number over a range of lift coefficients resulting in superior aircraft performance.
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  • 130
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Modifications to the Langley Low-Turbulence Pressure Tunnel are presented and a calibration of the mean flow parameters in the test section is provided. Also included are the operational capability of the tunnel and typical test results for both single-element and multi-element airfoils. Modifications to the facility consisted of the following: replacement of the original cooling coils and antiturbulence screens and addition of a tunnel-shell heating system, a two dimensional model-support and force-balance system, a sidewall boundary layer control system, a remote-controlled survey apparatus, and a new data acquisition system. A calibration of the mean flow parameters in the test section was conducted over the complete operational range of the tunnel. The calibration included dynamic-pressure measurements, Mach number distributions, flow-angularity measurements, boundary-layer characteristics, and total-pressure profiles. In addition, test-section turbulence measurements made after the tunnel modifications have been included with these calibration data to show a comparison of existing turbulence levels with data obtained for the facility in 1941 with the original screen installation.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2328 , L-15728 , NAS 1.60:2328
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  • 131
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Nonhelicopter types of V/STOL aircraft developed in the United States are reviewed, and some lessons learned from a selected number of concepts are highlighted. The AV-8B, which was developed by modifications to the British Harrier is the only current concept examined. Configurations proposed for the future subsonic, multimissing aircraft and the future supersonic fighter/attack aircraft are described. Emphasis is on these supersonic concepts.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85938 , A-9695 , NAS 1.15:85938
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  • 132
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The ALESEP program for the analysis of the inviscid/viscous interaction which occurs due to the presence of a closed laminar transitional separation bubble on an airflow is presented. The ALESEP code provides a iterative solution of the boundary layer equations expressed in an inverse formulation coupled to a Cauchy integral representation of the inviscid flow. This interaction analysis is treated as a local perturbation to a known solution obtained from a global airfoil analysis. Part of the required input to the ALESEP code are the reference displacement thickness and tangential velocity distributions. Special windward differencing may be used in the reversed flow regions of the separation bubble to accurately account for the flow direction in the discretization of the streamwise convection of momentum. The ALESEP code contains a forced transition model based on a streamwise intermittency function and a natural transition model based on a solution of the integral form of the turbulent kinetic energy equation. Instructions for the input/output, and program usage are presented.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172310 , NAS 1.26:172310
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  • 133
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Self streamlining two dimensional flexible walled test sections eliminate the uncertainties found in data from conventional test sections particularly at transonic speeds. The test section sidewalls are rigid, while the floor and ceiling are flexible and are positioned to streamline shapes by a system of jacks, without reference to the model. The walls are therefore self streamlining. Data are taken from the model when the walls are good streamlines such that the inevitable residual wall induced interference is acceptably small and correctable. Successful two dimensional validation testing at low speeds has led to the development of a new transonic flexible walled test section. Tunnel setting times are minimized by the development of a rapid wall setting strategy coupled with on line computer control of wall shapes using motorized jacks. Two dimensional validation testing using symmetric and cambered aerofoils in the Mach number range up to about 0.85 where the walls are just supercritical, shows good agreement with reference data using small height-chord ratios between 1.5 and unity.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172328 , NAS 1.26:172328
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  • 134
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A numerical procedure which solves the parabolized Navier-Stokes (PNS) equations on a body fitted mesh was used to compute the flow about the forebody of an advanced tactical supercruise fighter configuration in an effort to explore the use of a PNS method for design of supersonic cruise forebody geometries. Forebody flow fields were computed at Mach numbers of 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5, and at angles-of-attack of 0 deg, 4 deg, and 8 deg. at each Mach number. Computed results are presented at several body stations and include contour plots of Mach number, total pressure, upwash angle, sidewash angle and cross-plane velocity. The computational analysis procedure was found reliable for evaluating forebody flow fields of advanced aircraft configurations for flight conditions where the vortex shed from the wing leading edge is not a dominant flow phenomenon. Static pressure distributions and boundary layer profiles on the forebody and wing were surveyed in a wind tunnel test, and the analytical results are compared to the data. The current status of the parabolized flow flow field code is described along with desirable improvements in the code.
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    Type: NASA-CR-172315 , NAS 1.26:172315 , D180-27939-2
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  • 135
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A helicopter icing flight test program in the hover mode was conducted with a UH-1H aircraft. The ice formations were documented after landing by means of silicone rubber molds, stereo photography and outline tracings for later use in aerodynamic analyses. The documentation techniques are described and the results presented for a typical flight.
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    Type: NASA-CR-168332 , NAS 1.26:168332
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  • 136
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A unique opportunity has arisen to test one and the same airfoil model of CAST-7 section in two wind tunnels having adaptive walled test sections. The tunnels are very similar in terms of size and the available range of test conditions, but differ principally in their wall setting algorithms. Detailed data from the tests of the model in the Southampton tunnel, are included with comparisons between various sources of data indicating that both adaptive walled test sections provide low interference test conditions.
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    Type: NASA-CR-172291 , NAS 1.26:172291
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  • 137
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Some of the progress in computational aerodynamics over the last decade is reviewed. The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Program objectives, computational goals, and implementation plans are described.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85887 , A-9583 , NAS 1.15:85887
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  • 138
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Active control of rotor-induced vibration in rotorcraft has received significant attention recently. Two classes of techniques have been proposed. The more developed approach works with harmonic analysis of measured time histories and is called the frequency-domain approach. The more recent approach computes the control input directly using the measured time history data and is called the time-domain approach. The report summarizes the results of a theoretical investigation to compare the two approaches. Five specific areas were addressed: (1) techniques to derive models needed for control design (system identification methods), (2) robustness with respect to errors, (3) transient response, (4) susceptibility to noise, and (5) implementation difficulties. The system identification methods are more difficult for the time-domain models. The time-domain approach is more robust (e.g., has higher gain and phase margins) than the frequency-domain approach. It might thus be possible to avoid doing real-time system identification in the time-domain approach by storing models at a number of flight conditions. The most significant error source is the variation in open-loop vibrations caused by pilot inputs, maneuvers or gusts. The implementation requirements are similar except that the time-domain approach can be much simpler to implement if real-time system identification were not necessary.
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    Type: NASA-CR-166570 , NAS 1.26:166570
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  • 139
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Holographic interferometry data were acquired on an NACA 64A010 airfoil with an oscillating flap. The airfoil was installed in the Ames 11-Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel between splitter plates. Recordings were made at discrete phase angles of the oscillation. The interferometry results provided detailed flow visualization of the shock boundary-layer interaction and the separated flow. Quantitative results were extracted from the interferograms to produce pressure data. These results were compared to the surface pressures obtained with the surface pressure taps. Excellent agreement was found for low angles of incidence. At larger angles of incidence, the flow had greater three-dimensionality, and the results were not in good agreement in some regions of the flow field. Mach contours were traced for representative flow conditions. Wake profiles were also obtained using the assumption of constant pressure across the wake and the Crocco relationship.
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    Type: NASA-CR-166604 , NAS 1.26:166604
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  • 140
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A Time-Domain Green's function method for the nonlinear time-dependent three-dimensional aerodynamic potential equation is presented. The Green's theorem is being used to transform the partial differential equation into an integro-differential-delay equation. Finite-element and finite-difference methods are employed for the spatial and time discretizations to approximate the integral equation by a system of differential-delay equations. Solution may be obtained by solving for this nonlinear simultaneous system of equations in time. This paper discusses the application of the method to the Transonic Small Disturbance Equation and numerical results for lifting and nonlifting airfoils and wings in steady flows are presented.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0425
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  • 141
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A numerical method for computing nonplanar vortex wakes represented by finite-core vortices is presented. The approach solves for the velocity on an Eulerian grid, using standard finite-difference techniques; the vortex wake is tracked by Lagrangian methods. In this method, the distribution of continuous vorticity in the wake is replaced by a group of discrete vortices. An axially symmetric distribution of vorticity about the center of each discrete vortex is used to represent the finite-core model. Two distributions of vorticity, or core models, are investigated: a finite distribution of vorticity represented by a third-order polynomial, and a continuous distribution of vorticity throughout the wake. The method provides for a vortex-core model that is insensitive to the mesh spacing. Results for a simplified case are presented. Computed results for the roll-up of a vortex wake generated by wings with different spanwise load distributions are presented; contour plots of the flow-field velocities are included; and comparisons are made of the computed flow-field velocities with experimentally measured velocities.
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  • 142
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Surface pressure measurements have been made at Mach 10 in air on an instrumented 0.006-scale model of an advanced (control configured) winged entry vehicle. The tests were conducted in the Langley Continuous Flow Hypersonic Tunnel. Data were obtained at 83 surface pressure stations, which include locations on the lower and upper surface centerlines, spanwise positions along the lower and upper surfaces of the wing, the lower surface of the body flap, and radial locations on the fuselage. Data were obtained for angles of attack ranging from zero to 40 deg, sideslip angles of -2 deg to +5 deg, Reynolds numbers of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 million per foot, and body-flap deflections of zero, 10, and 20 deg. Test conditions and orifice locations were chosen to correspond directly with those for the heat transfer measurements previously reported on the same configuration. Comparison of windward symmetry plane data with predictions based upon an approximate engineering method was found to yield reasonable agreement for angles of attack from 20 to 40 deg. The leeward surface pressure data were observed to be roughly an order of magnitude lower than the corresponding windward data. At low angles of attack, regions of high pressure were noted on the windward wing surface. The result is attributed to vortical action or shock impingement. High pressures were also measured on the deflected body flap, a critical region for this type of vehicle. Reynolds number effects were found to be insignificant.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0308
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  • 143
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An approximate inviscid flowfield method has been extended to include heat-transfer predictions using a technique to account for variable-entropy edge conditions. The engineering code computes the flowfield over hyperboloids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, and sphere cones at 0 deg angle of attack (AOA). For angle-of-attack applications, an approximation to sphere-cone streamline-spreading effects on the heat transfer along the windward and leeward rays and an empirical circumferential heating technique have been incorporated also in the method. The present engineering calculations yield good comparisons with existing pressure and heating data over sphere cones even at high incidence values with the restriction that the sonic-line location remain on the spherical cap.
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  • 144
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A computational method developed to provide a transonic analysis for upper/lower surface wing-tip mounted winglets is described. Winglets with arbitrary planform, cant and toe angle, and airfoil section can be modeled. The embedded grid approach provides high flow field resolution and the required geometric flexibility. In particular, coupled Cartesian/cylindrical grid systems are used to model the complex geometry presented by canted upper/lower surface winglets. A new rotated difference scheme is introduced in order to maintain the stability of the small-disturbance formulation in the presence of large spanwise velocities. Wing and winglet viscous effects are modeled using a two-dimensional 'strip' boundary layer analysis. Correlations with wind tunnel and flight test data for three transport configurations are included.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0302
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  • 145
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Wind-tunnel measurements of steady and unsteady pressures for a high-aspect-ratio supercritical wing model are compared with calculations by the linear unsteady aerodynamic lifting-surface theory, known as the Doublet Lattice method, at Mach numbers of 0.650 (subsonic) and 0.78 (transonic). The steady-pressure data comparisons are made for incremental changes in angle of attack and control-surface deflection. The unsteady-pressure data comparisons are made for oscillating control-surface deflections. Some differences between the measured and calculated aerodynamics are attributed to viscous and transonic effects that are not accounted for in the Doublet Lattice analysis. Comparisons of the transonic unsteady-pressure data for the oscillating control surfaces are improved by applying empirical corrections based on the steady-pressure measurements to the unsteady Doublet Lattice calculations.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0301
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  • 146
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Transonic flow solutions are obtained over a multielement airfoil (augmentor-wing) using the full-potential equation. Solutions obtained for a subcritical case and a strong shock case show good quantitative agreement with experiment in regions not dominated by viscous effects. In those regions where viscous effects are dominant, the results are still in good qualitative agreement. For the strong shock case, Mach number and angle-of-attack corrections were necessary to match experimental coefficient of lift. Typical results from the transonic augmentor-wing Potential Code on the Cray-1S computer require about 10 sec of CPU time for a three-order-of-magnitude drop in the maximum residual. The speed with which solutions can be generated, and the associated low cost, will make this code a practical tool for the design aerodynamicist.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0300
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  • 147
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An implicit, finite-difference computer code has been developed to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional, curvilinear coordinate system. The pressure-field solution is based on the pseudo compressibility approach in which the time derivative pressure term is introduced into the mass conservation equation to form a set of hyperbolic equations. The solution procedure employs an implicit, approximate factorization scheme. The Reynolds stresses, that are uncoupled from the implicit scheme, are lagged by one time-step to facilitate implementing various levels of the turbulence model. Test problems for external and internal flows are computed, and the results are compared with existing experimental data. The application of this technique for general three-dimensional problems is then demonstrated.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0253
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  • 148
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The construction of high Reynolds number facilities, such as the National Transonic Facility (NTF) and the 0.3-m Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel (TCT), has stimulated interest again in the study of orifice induced static pressure. In a high Reynolds number facility, the orifice will have a much larger effect on the boundary layer than in a conventional wind tunnel. The present investigation was performed in the 0.3-m TCT at Mach numbers in the range from 0.60 to 0.80 and Reynolds numbers in the range from 6,000,000 to 40,000,000 with the objective to compare the porous plug orifices to conventional 0.025 cm orifices in a high Reynolds number environment. It was found that there was an error at high Reynolds numbers which could not be neglected and that the use of a porous metal disk in a conventional orifice could virtually eliminate the orifice induced pressure error.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0245
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  • 149
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A closed-form analysis of flow in a two-dimensional subsonic wind tunnel which uses sidewall suction around the model to reduce sidewall boundary-layer effects is presented. The model problem which is treated involves a flat plate airfoil in a tunnel with a suction window shaped to permit an analytic solution. This solution shows that the lift coefficient depends explicitly on the porosity parameter of the suction window and implicitly on the suction pressure differential. For a given sidewall displacement thickness, the lift coefficient increases as the suction-window porosity decreases.
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  • 150
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Computer graphic techniques are applied to the processing of Shuttle Orbiter flight data in order to create a visual presentation of the extent and movement of the boundary-layer transition front over the orbiter lower surface during entry. Flight-measured surface temperature-time histories define the onset and completion of the boundary-layer transition process at any measurement location. The locus of points which define the spatial position of the boundary-layer transition front on the orbiter planform is plotted at each discrete time for which flight data are available. Displaying these images sequentially in real-time results in an animated simulation of the in-flight boundary-layer transition process.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0228
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  • 151
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A method is developed to determine solutions to the full-potential equation for steady supersonic conical flow using the artificial density method. Various update schemes used generally for transonic potential solutions are investigated. The schemes are compared for speed and robustness. All versions of the computer code have been vectorized and are currently running on the CYBER-203 computer. The update schemes are vectorized, where possible, either fully (explicit schemes) or partially (implicit schemes). Since each version of the code differs only by the update scheme and elements other than the update scheme are completely vectorizable, comparisons of computational effort and convergence rate among schemes are a measure of the specific scheme's performance. Results are presented for circular and elliptical cones at angle of attack for subcritical and supercritical crossflows.
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    Type: AIAA PAPER 84-0162
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  • 152
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A finite difference viscous inviscid interaction program has been developed for simulating the separated transonic flow about lifting airfoils, including the wake. In contrast to most interaction programs, this code combines a finite difference boundary layer algorithm with the inviscid program. The recently developed finite difference boundary layer code efficiently simulates attached and reversed compressible boundary layer and wake flows. New viscous inviscid interaction algorithms were also developed to couple the boundary layer code with the inviscid transonic full potential program. Transonic cases with shock induced and trailing edge separation are computed and compared with experimental and Navier-Stokes results.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85980 , A-9812 , NAS 1.15:85980
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  • 153
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Static pressure coefficient distributions on the forebody, afterbody, and nozzles of a 1/12 scale F-15 propulsion model was determined in the 16 foot transonic tunnel for Mach numbers from 0.60 to 1.20, angles of attack from -2 deg to 7 deg and ratio of jet total pressure to free stream static pressure from 1 up to about 7, depending on Mach number. The effects of nozzle geometry and horizontal tail deflection on the pressure distributions were investigated. Boundary layer total pressure profiles were determined at two locations ahead of the nozzles on the top nacelle surface. Reynolds number varied from about 1.0 x 10 to the 7th power per meter, depending on Mach number.
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    Type: NASA-TP-2333 , L-15755 , NAS 1.60:2333
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  • 154
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A potential flow analysis to predict unsteady airloads produced by the vibrations of turbomachinery blades operating at transonic Mach numbers is presented. The unsteady aerodynamic model includes the effects of blade geometry, finite mean pressure variation across the blade row, high frequency blade motion, and shock motion within the framework of a linearized, frequency domain formulation. The unsteady equations are solved implicit, least squares, finite difference approximation which is applicable on arbitrary grids. A numerical solution for the entire unsteady field is determined by matching a solution determined on a rectilinear type cascade mesh, which covers an extended blade passage region, to a solution determined on a detailed polar type local mesh, which covers and extends well beyond the supersonic region(s) adjacent to a blade surface. Cascades of double circular arc and flat plate blades demonstrate the unsteady analysis, and partially illustrate the effects of blade geometry, inlet Mach number, blade vibration frequency and shock motion on unsteady response.
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    Type: NASA-CR-3833 , E-2202 , NAS 1.26:3833 , R84-956393-8
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  • 155
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Numerical techniques that improve the accuracy and stability of algorithms for the small disturbance and full potential equations used to calculate transonic flows are described. For the small disturbance equation, the algorithm improvements are: (1) the use of monotone switches in the type dependent finite differencing, and (2) the use of stable and simple second order accurate spatial differencing; these improvements are for steady and unsteady transonic flows. For the steady full potential equation, the improvement is in the use of a monotone switch in the type dependent finite differencing of an approximate factorization (AF2) algorithm. All these improvements are implemented in present computer codes by making minor coding modifications.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85970 , A-9778 , NAS 1.15:85970
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  • 156
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Transition data for sharp cones in two quiet wind tunnels at Mach numbers 3.5 and 5.0 have been correlated in terms of noise parameters with data from several conventional wind tunnels and from the flight data for the AEDC transition cone. The noise parameters were developed to account for the large axial variations of the rms stream noise and the high frequency noise spectra that occurred in the quiet tunnels for some test conditions. The correlation results indicated transition in the quiet tunnels was dominated by the local stream noise that was incident on the cone boundary layer upstream of the neutral stability point. The correlation results also suggested that the energy in high frequency components of the quiet tunnel noise spectra had significant adverse effects on transition when the noise was incident on the boundary layer both upstream and downstream of the neutral stability point.
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  • 157
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An experimental and theoretical investigation of fuselage incidence effects on two fighter aircraft models, which differed in wing planform only, has been conducted in the Langley Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Mach numbers of 1.6, 1.8, and 2.0. Results were obtained on the two models at fuselage incidence angles of 0 deg, 2 deg, and 5 deg. The fuselage geometry included two side-mounted, flow-through, half-axisymmetric inlets and twin vertical tails. The two planforms tested were cranked wings with 70 deg/66 deg and 70 deg/30 deg leading-edge sweep angles. Experimental data showed that fuselage incidence resulted in positive increments in configuration lift and pitching moment; most of the lift increment can be attributed to the fuselage-induced upwash acting on the wing and most of the pitching-moment increment is due to the fuselage. Theoretical analysis indicates that linear-theory methods can adequately predict the overall configuration forces and moments resulting from fuselage upwash, but a higher order surface-panel method (PAN AIR) more accurately predicted the distribution of forces and resulting moments between the components.
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    Type: NASA-TP-2330 , L-15758 , NAS 1.60:2330
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  • 158
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Missile concepts for volumetric efficiency, minimum carriage constraints, and aerodynamic performance to achieve mission requirements. The mission requirements considered include air to surface roles such as defense suppression or antishipping where payload and range may have priority over high maneuver capability, and air to air and surface to air roles paying attention to good maneuvering capability. The concepts are intended to provide for ease of storage or carriage. The concepts include monoplanes with highly swept, thick delta wings, highly swept delta wings mounted either high or low on a semicircular body, some ring wing and semiring wing arrangements, parasol wing, and elliptical lifting bodies. The missile configurations indicate possible approaches toward resolving problems of carriage and storage while retaining good volumetric and aerodynamic efficiency. The configurations can accomplish a variety of possible missions with relatively simple vehicle shapes.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85829 , NAS 1.15:85829
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  • 159
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A sensor for measuring water film thickness is evaluated. The test is conducted in a small flow apparatus with a 1 ft chord model wing in a water spray. Photographic and visual observations are made of the upper wing surface and film thickness is measured on the upper and lower wing surfaces. The performance of the sensor appears highly satisfactory, and where valid comparisons can be made, repeatable results are obtained.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85796 , L-15767 , NAS 1.15:85796
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  • 160
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A procedure that allows rapid preliminary evaluations of the vertical, short, and normal takeoff performance of supersonic cruise aircraft concepts was developed into a numerical computer program. The program is used to determine the effects on takeoff performance of various parameters, such as thrust-weight ratio, wing loading, thrust vector angle, and flap setting. Ramp-assisted takeoffs for overloaded configurations typical of a ground-attack mission are included. The effects of wind on the takeoff performance are also considered.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85818 , NAS 1.15:85818
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  • 161
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Explicit formulas in terms of shock curvature are developed for spatial derivatives of flow quantities behind a curved shock for two-dimensional inviscid steady flow. Factors which yield the equations indeterminate as the shock strength approaches 0 have been cancelled analytically so that formulas are valid for shocks of any strength. An application for the method is shown in the solution of shock coalescence when nonaxisymmetric effects are felt through derivatives in the circumferential direction. The solution of this problem requires flow derivatives behind the shock in both the axial and radial direction.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85782 , L-15778 , NAS 1.15:85782
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  • 162
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The influence of control deflections on the rotational flow aerodynamics and on predicted spin modes is discussed for a 1/6-scale general aviation airplane model. The model was tested for various control settings at both zero and ten degree sideslip angles. Data were measured, using a rotary balance, over an angle-of-attack range of 30 deg to 90 deg, and for clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations covering an omegab/2V range of 0 to 0.5.
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    Type: NASA-CR-3248 , NAS 1.26:3248
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  • 163
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The viscous transonic flow around a low aspect ratio wing was computed by an implicit, three dimensional, thin-layer Navier-Stokes solver. The grid around the geometry of interest is obtained numerically as a solution to a Dirichlet problem for the cube. A low aspect ratio wing with large sweep, twist, taper, and camber is the chosen geometry. The topology chosen to wrap the mesh around the wing with good tip resolution is a C-O type mesh. The flow around the wing was computed for a free stream Mach number of 0.82 at an angle of attack of 5 deg. At this Mach number, an oblique shock forms on the upper surface of the wing, and a tip vortex and three dimensional flow separation off the wind surface are observed. Particle path lines indicate that the three dimensional flow separation on the wing surface is part of the roots of the tip vortex formation. The lifting of the tip vortex before the wing trailing edge is observed by following the trajectory of particles release around the wing tip.
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    Type: NASA-TM-85932 , A-9693 , NAS 1.15:85932
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  • 164
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Engine inlets for subsonic V/STOL aircraft must operate over a wide range of conditions without the severe internal flow separation that can cause sudden changes in engine thrust, excessively high fan blade stresses, and possibly core-compressor stall. An experimental investigation was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of tangential blowing to maintain attached flow at high inlet angles of attack. The inlet had a relatively thin lip (lip contraction ratio of 1.46). Two blowing slot locations were investigated: one on the lip and the other in the diffuser. The effect of two slot heights (0.0508 and 0.152 cm) and three slot circumferential extents, the largest being 120 deg, also was investigated. The results showed that both lip and diffuser blowing were effective in maintaining attached flow at high angles of attack. However, higher angle-of-attack capability was achieved with lip blowing than with diffuser blowing. This capability was achieved with the largest slot circumferential extent and either of the two slot heights. The tests were conducted in a low-speed wind tunnel at free-stream velocities between 18 and 62 m/sec and inlet angles of attack to 110 deg.
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    Type: NASA-TP-2297 , E-1907 , NAS 1.60:2297
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  • 165
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Validation data from the Transonic Self-Streamlining Wind Tunnel has proved the feasibility of streamlining two dimensional flexible walls at low speeds and up to transonic speeds, the upper limit being the speed where the flexible walls are just supercritical. At this condition, breakdown of the wall setting strategy is evident in that convergence is neither as rapid nor as stable as for lower speeds, and wall streamlining criteria are not always completely satisfied. The only major step necessary to permit the extension of two dimensional testing into higher transonic speeds is the provision of a rapid algorithm to solve for mixed flow in the imagery flow fields. The status of two dimensional high transonic testing in the Transonic Self-Streamlining Wind Tunnel is outlined and, in particular, the progress of adapting an algorithm, which solves the Transonic Small Perturbation Equation, for predicting the imagery flow fields is detailed.
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    Type: NASA-CR-3785 , NAS 1.26:3785
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  • 166
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The computer code AGDISP (AGricultural DISPersal) has been developed to predict the deposition of material released from fixed and rotary wing aircraft in a single-pass, computationally efficient manner. The formulation of the code is novel in that the mean particle trajectory and the variance about the mean resulting from turbulent fluid fluctuations are simultaneously predicted. The code presently includes the capability of assessing the influence of neutral atmospheric conditions, inviscid wake vortices, particle evaporation, plant canopy and terrain on the deposition pattern. In this report, the equations governing the motion of aerially released particles are developed, including a description of the evaporation model used. A series of case studies, using AGDISP, are included.
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    Type: NAS 1.26:3779 , NASA-CR-3779
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The classic slotted-wall boundary-condition coefficient for rod-wall wind tunnels is derived by approximating the potential flow solution through a cascade of two staggered rows of rods. A comparison with the corrected Chen and Mears solution for flow through an unstaggered cascade is made.
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  • 168
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A class of conservative difference approximations for the steady full potential equation was presented. They are, in general, easier to program than the usual density biasing algorithms, and in fact, differ only slightly from them. Rigorous proof indicated that these new schemes satisfied a new discrete entropy inequality, which ruled out expansion shocks, and that they have sharp, steady, discrete shocks. A key tool in the analysis is the construction of a new entropy inequality for the full potential equation itself. Results of some numerical experiments using the new schemes are presented.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85751 , NAS 1.15:85751
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  • 169
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Four advanced fighter configurations, which differed in wing planform and airfoil shape, were investigated in the Langley Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Mach numbers of 1.60, 1.80, 2.00, and 2.16. Supersonic data were obtained on the four uncambered wings, which were each attached to a single fighter fuselage. The fuselage geometry varied in cross-sectional shape and had two side-mounted, flow-through, half-axisymmetric inlets. Twin vertical tails were attached to the fuselage. The four planforms tested were a 65 deg delta wing, a combination of a 20 deg trapezoidal wing and a 45 deg horizontal tail, a 70 deg/30 deg cranked wing, and a 70 deg/66 deg crank wing, where the angle values refer to the leading-edge sweep angle of the lifting-surface planform. Planform effects on a single fuselage representative of an advanced fighter aircraft were studied. Results show that the highly swept cranked wings exceeded the aerodynamic performance levels, at low lift coefficients, of the 65 deg delta wing and the 20 deg trapezoidal wing at trimmed and untrimmed conditions.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2269 , L-15706 , NAS 1.60:2269
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  • 170
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: This is a user manual for the computer code ""AGDISP'' (AGricultural DISPersal) which has been developed to predict the deposition of material released from fixed and rotary wing aircraft in a single-pass, computationally efficient manner. The formulation of the code is novel in that the mean particle trajectory and the variance about the mean resulting from turbulent fluid fluctuations are simultaneously predicted. The code presently includes the capability of assessing the influence of neutral atmospheric conditions, inviscid wake vortices, particle evaporation, plant canopy and terrain on the deposition pattern.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-3780 , NAS 1.26:3780
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  • 171
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A generalized subsonic unsteady aerodynamic kernel function, valid for both growing and decaying oscillatory motions, is developed and applied in a modified flutter analysis computer program to solve the boundaries of constant damping ratio as well as the flutter boundary. Rates of change of damping ratios with respect to dynamic pressure near flutter are substantially lower from the generalized-kernel-function calculations than from the conventional velocity-damping (V-g) calculation. A rational function approximation for aerodynamic forces used in control theory for s-plane analysis gave rather good agreement with kernel-function results, except for strongly damped motion at combinations of high (subsonic) Mach number and reduced frequency.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2292 , L-15708 , NAS 1.60:2292
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  • 172
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Experimental data show that the phenomenon of a separation induced leading edge vortex is influenced by the wing thickness and the shape of the leading edge. Both thickness and leading edge shape (rounded rather than point) delay the formation of a vortex. Existing computer programs used to predict the effect of a leading edge vortex do not include a procedure for determining whether or not a vortex actually exists. Studies under NASA Contract NAS1-15678 have shown that the vortex development can be predicted by using the relationship between the leading edge suction coefficient and the parabolic nose drag. The linear theory FLEXSTAB was used to calculate the leading edge suction coefficient. This report describes the development of a method for calculating leading edge suction using the capabilities of the higher order panel methods (exact boundary conditions). For a two dimensional case, numerical methods were developed using the double strength and downwash distribution along the chord. A Gaussian quadrature formula that directly incorporates the logarithmic singularity in the downwash distribution, at all panel edges, was found to be the best method.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-3730 , NAS 1.26:3730 , D6-52135
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  • 173
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A wind-tunnel investigation was conducted to study the two dimensional aerodynamic characteristics of the NACA 65 sub 1-213 airfoil over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. Test temperature ranged from ambient to about 100K at pressures ranging from about 1.2 to 6.0 atm. Mach number was varied from 0.22 to 0.80 and Reynolds number (based on airfoil chord) from 3 million to 40 million. Data are included which demonstrate the effects of fixed transition, Mach number, and Reynolds number on the aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoil. A sample of data showing the effects of angle of attack on the pressure distribution is also given. The data are presented in an uncorrected form with no analysis.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-85732 , NAS 1.15:85732
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  • 174
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Semi-discrete generalizations of the second order extension of Godunov's scheme, known as the MUSCL scheme, are constructed, starting with any three point E scheme. They are used to approximate scalar conservation laws in one space dimension. For convex conservation laws, each member of a wide class is proven to be a convergent approximation to the correct physical solution. Comparison with another class of high resolution convergent schemes is made.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172306 , ICASE-84-10 , NAS 1.26:172306
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  • 175
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The instability of an infinite swept attachment line boundary layer is considered in the linear regime. The basic three dimensional flow is shown to be susceptible to travelling wave disturbances which propagate along the attachment line. The effect of suction on the instability is discussed and the results suggest that the attachment line boundary layer on a swept wing can be significantly stabilized by extremely small amounts of suction. The results obtained are in excellent agreement with the available experimental observations.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172300 , ICASE-84-5 , NAS 1.26:172300
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  • 176
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An analytical design procedure for leading edge extensions (LEE) was developed for thick delta wings. This LEE device is designed to be mounted to a wing along the pseudo-stagnation stream surface associated with the attached flow design lift coefficient of greater than zero. The intended purpose of this device is to improve the aerodynamic performance of high subsonic and low supersonic aircraft at incidences above that of attached flow design lift coefficient, by using a vortex system emanating along the leading edges of the device. The low pressure associated with these vortices would act on the LEE upper surface and the forward facing area at the wing leading edges, providing an additional lift and effective leading edge thrust recovery. The first application of this technique was to a thick, round edged, twisted and cambered wing of approximately triangular planform having a sweep of 58 deg and aspect ratio of 2.30. The panel aerodynamics and vortex lattice method with suction analogy computer codes were employed to determine the pseudo-stagnation stream surface and an optimized LEE planform shape.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172351 , NAS 1.26:172351
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  • 177
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    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: In order to have a high level of maneuverability, supersonic delta wings should have a cross flow that is free of embedded shock waves. The conical cross flow sonic surface differs from that of plane transonic flow in many aspects. Well-known properties such as the monotone law are not true for conical cross flow sonic surfaces. By using a local analysis of the cross flow sonic line, relevant conditions for smooth cross flow are obtained. A technique to artificially construct a smooth sonic surface and an efficient numerical method to calculate the flow field are used to obtain cones with smooth cross flow.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172297 , NAS 1.26:172297 , REPT-84-6
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  • 178
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The effects of geometric design parameters on two dimensional convergent-divergent nozzles were investigated at nozzle pressure ratios up to 12 in the static test facility. Forward flight (dry and afterburning power settings), vectored-thrust (afterburning power setting), and reverse-thrust (dry power setting) nozzles were investigated. The nozzles had thrust vector angles from 0 deg to 20.26 deg, throat aspect ratios of 3.696 to 7.612, throat radii from sharp to 2.738 cm, expansion ratios from 1.089 to 1.797, and various sidewall lengths. The results indicate that unvectored two dimensional convergent-divergent nozzles have static internal performance comparable to axisymmetric nozzles with similar expansion ratios.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2253 , L-15671 , NAS 1.60:2253
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  • 179
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The aerodynamic effects of spanwise blowing on the trailing edge flap of an advanced fighter aircraft configuration were determined in the 4 by 7 Meter Tunnel. A series of tests were conducted with variations in spanwise-blowing vector angle, nozzle exit area, nozzle location, thrust coefficient, and flap deflection in order to determine a superior configuration for both an underwing cascade concept and an overwing port concept. This screening phase of the testing was conducted at a nominal approach angle of attack from 12 deg to 16 deg; and then the superior configurations were tested over a more complete angle of attack range from 0 deg to 20 deg at tunnel free stream dynamic pressures from 20 to 40 lbf/sq ft at thrust coefficients from 0 to 2.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2250 , L-15627 , NAS 1.60:2250
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  • 180
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A wing-body-canard configuration was tested at a Mach number of 1.62 by using both a cambered and an uncambered wing. The cambered wing was designed to produce efficient high lift by using attached supercritical crossflow and was originally tested as an isolated wing. The uncambered wing has the same planform and essentially the same thickness distribution as the cambered wing. The experiment determined the effects of a body and canards on both wings. The experimental data showed that both the body and the canards influenced the wing pressure levels, but that the attached supercritical crossflow, which was achieved in the isolated cambered-wing test, was maintained in the presence of a body and canards. Tables of experimental pressure, force, and moment data are included, as well as photographs of oil flow patterns on the upper surface.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2249 , L-15677 , NAS 1.60:2249
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  • 181
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A wind tunnel investigation was conducted to determine the aerodynamic interference associated with the installation of a long duct, flow-through nacelle on a straight unswept untapered supercritical wing. Experimental data was obtained for the verification of computational prediction techniques. The model was tested in the 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel at Mach numbers from 0.20 to 0.875 and at angles of attack from about 0 deg to 5 deg. The results of the investigation show that strong viscous and compressibility effects are present at the transonic Mach numbers. Numerical comparisons show that linear theory is adequate for subsonic Mach number flow prediction, but is inadequate for prediction of the extreme flow conditions that exist at the transonic Mach numbers.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2246 , L-15589 , NAS 1.60:2246
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  • 182
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Improvements in transonic maneuver performance by the use of three-dimensional transonic theory and a transonic design procedure were examined. The FLO-27 code of Jameson and Caughey was used to design a new wing for a fighter configuration with lower drag at transonic maneuver conditions. The wing airfoil sections were altered to reduce the upper-surface shock strength by means of a design procedure which is based on the iterative application of the FLO-27 code. The plan form of the fighter configuration was fixed and had a leading edge sweep of 45 deg and an aspect ratio of 3.28. Wind-tunnel tests were conducted on this configuration at Mach numbers from 0.60 to 0.95 and angles of attack from -2 deg to 17 deg. The transonic maneuver performance of this configuration was evaluated by comparison with a wing designed by empirical methods and a wing designed primarily by two-dimensional transonic theory. The configuration designed by the use of FLO-27 had the same or lower drag than the empirical wing and, for some conditions, lower drag than the two-dimensional design. From some maneuver conditions, the drag of the two-dimensional design was somewhat lower.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2282 , L-15681 , NAS 1.60:2282
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  • 183
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The tip of a finite-span airfoil was used to generate a streamwise vortical flow, the strength of which could be varied by changing the incidence of the airfoil. The vortex that was generated traveled downstream and interacted with a second airfoil on which measurements of lift, drag, and pitching moment were made. The flow field, including the vortex core, was visualized in order to study the structural alterations to the vortex resulting from various levels of encounter with the downstream airfoil. These observations were also used to evaluate the accuracy of a theoretical model.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2273 , E-1585 , NAS 1.60:2273 , AVSCOM-TR-83-A-17
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  • 184
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The capability of two numerical methods, one for transonic and one for supersonic flows, to predict the flow fields about representative fighter aircraft forebodies in the vicinity of the engine inlets was examined. The Mach number range covered was 0.9 to 2.5 and the angle-of-attack range was 0 deg to 25 deg. The computer progams that implement each of the numerical methods are described as to their features and usage, and results are compared with comprehensive wind tunnel data. Although both prediction methods were inviscid, results show that the aerodynamic effects of the forebody, with and without a wing, can be simulated fairly well. Futher work is needed to include the effects of viscosity, including vortex shedding.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2270 , L-15639 , NAS 1.60:2270
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  • 185
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An engineering prediction method and associated computer code NOZVTX to predict nose vortex shedding from circular and noncircular bodies in supersonic flow at angles of attack and roll are presented. The body is represented by either a supersonic panel method for noncircular cross sections or line sources and doublets for circular cross sections, and the lee side vortex wake is modeled by discrete vortices in crossflow planes. The three-dimensional steady flow problem is reduced to a two-dimensional, unsteady, separated flow problem for solution. Comparison of measured and predicted surface pressure distributions, flow field surveys, and aerodynamic characteristics is presented for bodies with circular and noncircular cross-sectional shapes.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-3754 , NAS 1.26:3754 , NEAR-TR-307
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  • 186
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The results of an analytical/experimental study of the flow fields about an airfoil with leading edge glaze ice accretion shapes are presented. Tests were conducted in the Icing Research Tunnel to measure surface pressure distributions and boundary layer separation reattachment characteristics on a general aviation wing section to which was affixed wooden ice shapes which approximated typical glaze ice accretions. Comparisons were made with predicted pressure distributions using current airfoil analysis codes as well as the Bristow mixed analysis/design airfoil panel code. The Bristow code was also used to predict the separation reattachment dividing streamline by inputting the appropriate experimental surface pressure distribution.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-168282 , NAS 1.26:168282
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  • 187
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Aerodynamic data from a test program in the Icing Research Tunnel are reported for a NACA 63A415 airfoil, with fowler flap, clean and with simulated ice shapes. The effect of three ice shapes on airfoil performance are presented, two of the simulated ice shapes are from earlier Icing Tunnel tests. Lift, drag, and moment coefficients are reported for the airfoil, clean and with ice, for angles of attack from approximately zero lift to maximum lift and for flap deflections of 0, 10, 20, and 30 degrees. Surface pressure distribution plots for the airfoil and flap are presented for all runs. Some preliminary oil flow visualization data are also discussed. Large drag penalties were measured in all instances. Maximum lift penalties were in general serious, and depend upon the ice shape and flap deflection.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-168288 , NAS 1.26:168288 , AARL-TR-83-2
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  • 188
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A wind tunnel investigation was conducted to determine the local inlet flow field characteristics of an advanced tactical supersonic cruise airplane. A data base for the development and validation of analytical codes directed at the analysis of inlet flow fields for advanced supersonic airplanes was established. Testing was conducted at the NASA-Langley 16-foot Transonic Tunnel at freestream Mach numbers of 0.6 to 1.20 and angles of attack from 0.0 to 10.0 degrees. Inlet flow field surveys were made at locations representative of wing (upper and lower surface) and forebody mounted inlet concepts. Results are presented in the form of local inlet flow field angle of attack, sideflow angle, and Mach number contours. Wing surface pressure distributions supplement the flow field data.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172239 , NAS 1.26:172239 , D180-27738-1
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  • 189
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Acoustic data taken in the anechoic Deutsch-Niederlaendischer Windkanal (DNW) have documented the blade vortex interaction (BVI) impulsive noise radiated from a 1/7-scale model main rotor of the AH-1 series helicopter. Averaged model scale data were compared with averaged full scale, inflight acoustic data under similar nondimensional test conditions. At low advance ratios (mu = 0.164 to 0.194), the data scale remarkable well in level and waveform shape, and also duplicate the directivity pattern of BVI impulsive noise. At moderate advance ratios (mu = 0.224 to 0.270), the scaling deteriorates, suggesting that the model scale rotor is not adequately simulating the full scale BVI noise; presently, no proved explanation of this discrepancy exists. Carefully performed parametric variations over a complete matrix of testing conditions have shown that all of the four governing nondimensional parameters - tip Mach number at hover, advance ratio, local inflow ratio, and thrust coefficient - are highly sensitive to BVI noise radiation.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-86007 , A-9854 , NAS 1.15:86007 , TM-84-A-7 , AD-A159471
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  • 190
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The time dependent, isentropic, quasi-one-dimensional equations of gas dynamics and other model equations are considered under the constraint of characteristic boundary conditions. Analysis of the time evolution shows how different initial data may lead to different steady states and how seemingly anamolous behavior of the solution may be resolved. Numerical experimentation using time consistent explicit algorithms verifies the conclusions of the analysis. The use of implicit schemes with very large time steps leads to erroneous results.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172486 , ICASE-84-57 , NAS 1.26:172486
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  • 191
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The effects of five geometric design parameters on the internal performance of single-expansion-ramp nozzles were investigated at nozzle pressure ratios up to 10 in the static-test facility of the Langley 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel. The geometric variables on the expansion-ramp surface of the upper flap consisted of ramp chordal angle, ramp length, and initial ramp angle. On the lower flap, the geometric variables consisted of flap angle and flap length. Both internal performance and static-pressure distributions on the centerlines of the upper and lower flaps were obtained for all 43 nozzle configurations tested.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-86270 , L-15814 , NAS 1.15:86270
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  • 192
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Current literature on the three dimensional flow through compressor cascades deals with a row of rotor blades in isolation. Since the distance between the rotor and stator is usually 10 to 20 percent of the blade chord, the aerodynamic interference between them has to be considered for a proper evaluation of the aerothermodynamic performance of the stage. A unified approach to the aerodynamics of the incompressible flow through a stage is presented that uses the lifting surface theory for a compressor cascade of arbitrary camber and thickness distribution. The effects of rotor stator interference are represented as a linear function of the rotor and stator flows separately. The loading distribution on the rotor and stator flows separately. The loading distribution on the rotor and stator blades and the interference factor are determined concurrently through a matrix iteration process.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-83767 , E-2258 , NAS 1.15:83767
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  • 193
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The mathematical development for the expanded capabilities of the G400 rotor aeroelastic analysis was examined. The G400PA expanded analysis simulates the dynamics of all conventional rotors, blade pendulum vibration absorbers, and the higher harmonic excitations resulting from prescribed vibratory hub motions and higher harmonic blade pitch control. The methodology for modeling the unsteady stalled airloads of two dimensional airfoils is discussed. Formulations for calculating the rotor impedance matrix appropriate to the higher harmonic blade excitations are outlined. This impedance matrix, and the associated vibratory hub loads, are the rotor dynamic characteristic elements for use in the simplified coupled rotor/fuselage vibration analysis (SIMVIB). Updates to the development of the original G400 theory, program documentation, user instructions and information are presented.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-172455 , NAS 1.26:172455
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  • 194
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A steady, three-dimensional average-passage equation system is derived for use in simulating multistage turbomachinery flows. These equations describe a steady, viscous flow that is periodic from blade passage to blade passage. From this system of equations, various reduced forms can be derived for use in simulating the three-dimensional flow field within multistage machinery. It is suggested that a properly scaled form of the average-passage equation system would provide an improved mathematical model for simulating the flow in multistage machines at design and, in particular, at off-design conditions.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-86869 , E-2291 , NAS 1.15:86869
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  • 195
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Both two- and three-dimensional model testing is being carried out in the transonic flexible-walled wind tunnel test section. The test section has flexible top and bottom walls with rigid sidewalls. Interference is eliminated by adjustments based on data taken at walls in two dimensional models. Cast-7 data will illustrate agreement between various flexible-walled tunnels. In three-dimensional models interference cannot be eliminated but wall adjustments can control and relieve the principal sources of wall-induced errors. Estimates of magnitudes of the control which may be exercised on flow by movement of one wall jack are presented. A wall control algorithm (still in analytic development stage) based on use of this data is described. Brief examples of control of wall-induced perturbations in region of model are given.
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    Type: NASA. Langley Research Center Wind Tunnel Wall Interference Assessment and Correction, 1983; p 79-88
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  • 196
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Results are presented of a subsonic experimental investigation of an apex flap concept on a 74 deg swept delta wing with trailing-edge flaps. The apex flap comprised approximately 6 percent of the wing area forward of a transverse hinge, allowing for upward and downward deflection angles from +40 deg to -20 deg. Upward deflection forces leading-edge vortex formation on the apex flap, resulting in an increased lift component on the apex area. The associated nose-up moment balances the nose-down moment due to trailing-edge flaps, resulting in sizeable increase in the trimmed lift coefficient particularly at low angles of attack. Nose-down apex deflection may be used to augment the pitch control for rapid recovery from high-alpha maneuvers. This report presents the balance data without analysis.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-166081 , NAS 1.26:166081
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  • 197
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A technique which employs both linear and nonlinear methods in a multilevel optimization structure to best approximate generalized unsteady aerodynamic forces for arbitrary motion is described. Optimum selection of free parameters is made in a rational function approximation of the aerodynamic forces in the Laplace domain such that a best fit is obtained, in a least squares sense, to tabular data for purely oscillatory motion. The multilevel structure and the corresponding formulation of the objective models are presented which separate the reduction of the fit error into linear and nonlinear problems, thus enabling the use of linear methods where practical. Certain equality and inequality constraints that may be imposed are identified; a brief description of the nongradient, nonlinear optimizer which is used is given; and results which illustrate application of the method are presented.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-86317 , NAS 1.15:86317
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  • 198
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Characteristic far-field boundary conditions for the three-dimensional unsteady transonic small disturbance potential equation have been developed. The boundary conditions were implemented in the XTRAN3S finite difference code and tested for a flat plate rectangular wing with a pulse in angle of attack; the freestream Mach number was 0.85. The calculated force response shows that the characteristic boundary conditions reduce disturbances that are reflected from the computational boundaries.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-86292 , NAS 1.15:86292
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  • 199
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: A new computer program is presented for calculating the quasi-steady transonic flow past a helicopter rotor blade in hover as well as in forward flight. The program is based on the full potential equations in a blade attached frame of reference and is capable of treating a very general class of rotor blade geometries. Computed results show good agreement with available experimental data for both straight and swept tip blade geometries.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TP-2375-PT-1 , A-9721-PT-1 , NAS 1.60:2375-PT-1
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  • 200
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: An investigation was conducted of various jet exit vane configurations in the open test section of the Langley 4- by 7-Meter Tunnel to determine their effectiveness in reducing flow pulsations. The data consist of the instantaneous velocity fluctuations measured with hot-wire anemometers located at the tunnel centerline, 39.5 ft (12.0) downstream of the jet exit. The data are presented in the form of measured root-mean-square turbulence levels in the test section and a time series analysis for the baseline jet exit configuration (without vanes) and forthe most effective vane configuration, which consisted of triangular vanes alternating into and out of the flow around the jet exit.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-TM-86299 , L-15810 , NAS 1.15:86299
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