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Design and calibration of a total-temperature probe for use at supersonic speeds (open access)

Design and calibration of a total-temperature probe for use at supersonic speeds

Report presenting a study of the factors involved in the design of total-temperature probes for use at supersonic speeds as applied to the design of an instrument to be used in wind-tunnel calibrations. Tests of the probe showed that the calibration factor required in the conversion of the measured temperature to the true total temperature was 0.992 for a range of Mach numbers.
Date: May 1949
Creator: Goldstein, David L. & Scherrer, Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of detonation detector suitable for use in flight (open access)

Development of detonation detector suitable for use in flight

Report presenting an apparatus for making quantitative measurements of the vibrations excited by detonation in the cylinder head of an aircraft engine. The apparatus consisted of pick-up units, an amplifying system, and a cathode-ray oscillograph with a high-speed-camera recording system. A large number of records were taken under various operating conditions in a single-cylinder aircraft engine.
Date: December 1944
Creator: Draper, C. S.; Taylor, E. S.; Lancor, J. H. & Coffey, R. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Velocity Distribution on Wing Sections of Arbitrary Shape in Compressible Potential Flow 1: Circulatory Flows Obeying the Simplified Density-Speed Relation (open access)

Velocity Distribution on Wing Sections of Arbitrary Shape in Compressible Potential Flow 1: Circulatory Flows Obeying the Simplified Density-Speed Relation

"As a first step toward the computation of the velocity distribution along a wing profile of arbitrary shape in a compressible fluid, the circulation-free flow around a symmetrical profile is treated under the assumption of the simplified density-speed relation due to Tchaplygin, Karman, and Tsien. The velocity distribution problem is reduced to a non-linear integral equation which is solved by a fairly rapidly convergent iteration method. Numerical examples are given" (p. 1).
Date: April 1946
Creator: Bers, Lipman
System: The UNT Digital Library