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An Unsteady Flow Wind Tunnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

J H Horlock
J H Horlock*
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Salford University, formerly SRC Turbomachinery Laboratory, Cambridge
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A novel low-speed wind tunnel which produces unsteady “gust” flows is described. The walls are sinusoidal in shape and are moved in the flow direction with a velocity Ww less than the mean velocity Wm of the free stream. The tunnel is useful for testing isolated aerofoils and aerofoils in cascade in non-convective gusts (Ww < Wm) so that comparisons with predictions by thin aerofoil theory may be made. However, it does not simulate precisely the unsteady flow that occurs in axial flow turbomachines.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 1974, pp. 81 - 90
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1974

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