Airfoil Pressure Distribution Investigation in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel (open access)

Airfoil Pressure Distribution Investigation in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel

Report presents the results of wind tunnel tests of pressure distribution measurements over one section each of six airfoils. Pressure distribution diagrams, as well as the integrated characteristics of the airfoils, are given for both a high and a low dynamic scale or, Reynolds number VL/V, for comparison with flight and other wind-tunnel tests, respectively. It is concluded that the scale effect is very important only at angles of attack near the burble.
Date: January 14, 1930
Creator: Jacobs, Eastman N.; Stack, John & Pinkerton, Robert M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gaseous Explosive Reaction: The Effect of Pressure on the Rate of Propagation of the Reaction Zone and Upon the Rate of Molecular Transformation (open access)

The Gaseous Explosive Reaction: The Effect of Pressure on the Rate of Propagation of the Reaction Zone and Upon the Rate of Molecular Transformation

This study of gaseous explosive reaction has brought out a number of important fundamental characteristics of the explosive reaction indicating that the basal processes of the transformation are much simpler and corresponds more closely to the general laws and principles of ordinary transformations than is usually supposed. The report calls attention to the point that the rate of molecular transformation within the zone was found in all cases to be proportional to pressure, that the transformation within the zone is the result of binary impacts. This result is of unusual interest in the case of the reaction of heavy hydrocarbon fuels and the reaction mechanism proposed by the recent kinetic theory of chain reactions.
Date: June 14, 1930
Creator: Stevens, F. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library