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Blockage Corrections for Blunt-Based Bodies of Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. R. Calvert*
Affiliation:
Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Extract

Maskell has developed a theory for the blockage effects of bluff bodies in a closed wind tunnel and has shown that it gives good results for flat plates normal to a stream. For streamline bodies there are well established methods of calculating the corrections, but for long bodies with blunt bases it is not obvious what method should be used.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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References

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