Introduction to aerodynamic testing in various speed regimes, requirements of aerodynamic testing, design aspects of low speed wind tunnels, flow visualization methods, measurement methods for flow variables. Wind tunnel balances, elements of computer based instrumentation, measurements and analyses methods. Elements of high speed wind tunnel testing: design aspects to supersonic and hypersonic wind-tunnels, other high speed facilities like shock tube shock tunnels, free piston tunnels, ballistic ranges and low density tunnels, special aspects of instrumentation for high speed flows
Text books:
William H Roe Jr and Alan Pope, Low Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, Wiley and Sons, 1984.
Pankhrust R.C. and Holder D.W., Wind-Tunnel technique, Sir Isaac Sons Ltd, London, 1968.
Lukasiewicz J., Experimental methods of Hypersonic, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1973.
Alan Pope and Kenneth L, Going High-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing, Wiley and Sons, 1965.
Prerequlsltes:
None
Instructors:
K. P. J. Reddy and B. Vasudevan
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