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The powerful adverse effect of wind tunnel noise on boundary layer transition was conclusively demonstrated about two decades ago by the remarkable correlations of Pate and Schueler at AEDC. They showed that transition Reynolds numbers were accurately correlated by noise dependent parameters in several different tunnels over the Mach number range from 3 to 20. Their correlations established that the high levels of wind tunnel noise were caused by acoustic noise radiation from the tunnel walls. Later at the Langley Research Center, Stainback showed that a quantitative relationship exists between wind tunnel rms pressure levels and transition.
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Beckwith, I.E. (1990). High-Speed Quiet Tunnels. In: Hussaini, M.Y., Voigt, R.G. (eds) Instability and Transition. ICASE/NASA LaRC Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3430-2_8
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