http://www.cadfamily.com/a/CAE_FEA_CFD/Fluid-Mechanics/Scaling--Wind-Tunnel-to-Flight_4198.html
Key Words
aeronautics, wind tunnel, scaling, flight, corrections
Abstract
Wind tunnels have wide-ranging functionality, including many applications beyond
aeronautics, and historically have been the major source of information for technological aerodynamics/aeronautical applications. There are a myriad of scaling
issues/differences from flight to wind tunnel, and their study and impacts are uneven and a function of the particular type of extant flow phenomena. Typically, the
most serious discrepancies are associated with flow separation. The tremendous ongoing increases in numerical simulation capability are changing and in many aspects
have changed the function of the wind tunnel from a (scaled) “predictor” to a source of
computational calibrationalidation information with the computation then utilized
as the flight prediction/scaling tool. Numerical simulations can increasingly include
the influences of the various scaling issues. This wind tunnel role change has been
occurring for decades as computational capability improves in all aspects. Additional
issues driving this trend are the increasing cost (and time) disparity between physical
experiments and computations, and increasingly stringent accuracy requirements.
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