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Design Of Nozzle Contours For The Pwt 16-Ft Transonic Wind Tunnel, William Everett Milam

Masters Theses

The nozzle contours of the Tunnel 16T nozzle were designed in the early 1950's and, for the most part, were calculated by hand. In addition, corrections have been made to the contours through the use of an influence coefficient correction technique in an attempt to remove small flow irregularities. This correction technique is not based on aerodynamic theory, and, as a result the corrected contours are not necessarily aerodynamically correct. A second problem stems from the fact that the application of the nozzle corrections results in nozzle contours that do not change in a monotonic manner. There are some jacks …