Accession Number:

AD1029764

Title:

Measuring Skin Friction Drag over a Flat Plate Using Thin Oil Film Interferometry

Descriptive Note:

Conference Paper

Corporate Author:

United States Air Force Academy Air Force Academy United States

Report Date:

2012-04-04

Pagination or Media Count:

17.0

Abstract:

Skin friction drag is a difficult aerodynamic property to measure on a wind tunnel model and hard to predict using computational fluid dynamics. One solution which may help improve andor solve some of these issues is an experimental method called Thin Oil film Interferometry TOFI.

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APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE