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Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Testing

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Advances in Hypersonics

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In general, there are four primary reasons for wind tunnel testing:

  1. 1.

    understanding aerodynamic flow (research)

  2. 2.

    development of a database

  3. 3.

    parametric configuration studies and

  4. 4.

    validation of codes/correlations

The research reported herein was performed by the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDQ, Air Force Sytems Command. Work and analysis for this research were done by personnel of Calspan Corporation/AEDC Operations, operating contractor for the AEDC aerospace flight dynamics facilities. Further reproduction is authorized to satisfy needs of the U. S. Government.

The author appreciates the material developed by the Calspan/AEDC staff with particular thanks to W. T. Strike and F. L. Crosswy.

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  1. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 87111, USA

    John J. Bertin

  2. Dept. of Aerodynamic Theory, Avions Marcel Dassault-Brequet Aviation, 92214, Saint Cloud, France

    Jacques Periaux

  3. Lehr-Und Forschungsbiet für Mechanik der Rheinisch-Westfälischen, Technischen Hochschule Aachen, Templergraben 64, Germany

    Josef Ballmann

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Matthews, R.K. (1992). Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Testing. In: Bertin, J.J., Periaux, J., Ballmann, J. (eds) Advances in Hypersonics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0379-7_3

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