Determination of the Profile Drag of an Airplane Wing in Flight at High Reynolds Numbers (open access)

Determination of the Profile Drag of an Airplane Wing in Flight at High Reynolds Numbers

"Flight tests were made to determine the profile-drag coefficients of a portion of the original wing surface of an all-metal airplane and of a portion of the wing made aerodynamically smooth and more nearly fair than the original section. The wing section was approximately the NACA 2414.5. The tests were carried out over a range of airplane speeds giving a maximum Reynolds number of 15,000,000. Tests were also carried out to locate the point of transition from laminar to turbulent boundary layer and to determine the velocity distribution along the upper surface of the wing" (p. 483).
Date: January 6, 1939
Creator: Bicknell, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mechanism of Atomization Accompanying Solid Injection (open access)

The Mechanism of Atomization Accompanying Solid Injection

"A brief historical and descriptive account of solid injection is followed by a detailed review of the available theoretical and experimental data that seem to throw light on the mechanism of this form of atomization. It is concluded that this evidence indicates that (1) the atomization accompanying solid injection occurs at the surface of the liquid after it issues as a solid stream from the orifice; and (2) that such atomization has a mechanism physically identical with the atomization which takes place in an air stream, both being due merely to the formation, at the gas-liquid interface, of fine ligaments under the influence of the relative motion of gas and liquid, and to their collapse, under the influence of surface tension, to form the drops in the spray" (p. 735).
Date: January 6, 1932
Creator: Castleman, R. A., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library