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The Impact of an Axisymmetric Jet onto a Normal Ground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

L J S Bradbury*
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Surrey
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Summary

The impact of an axisymmetric jet onto a ground board is a flow of some interest in VTOL aircraft aerodynamics. This paper presents a simple argument for correlating data obtained in the impact region from different nozzle configurations and for different nozzle heights above ground. The argument is applied, in particular, to the static pressure on the ground board and to the peak dynamic head in the flow over the ground board.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1972

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