Skin friction measurements in high temperature high speed flows
- Author:
- Diller, Thomas E.
- Published:
- Sep 1, 1992.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Schetz, J. A. and Wicks, A. L.
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- An experimental investigation was conducted to measure skin friction along the chamber walls of supersonic combustors. A direct force measurement device was used to simultaneously measure an axial and transverse component of the small tangential shear force passing over a non-intrusive floating element. The floating head is mounted to a stiff cantilever beam arrangement with deflection due to the flow on the order of 0.00254 mm (0.0001 in.). This allowed the instrument to be a non-nulling type. A second gauge was designed with active cooling of the floating sensor head to eliminate non-uniform temperature effects between the sensor head and the surrounding wall. Samples of measurements made in combustor test facilities at NASA Langley Research Center and at the General Applied Science Laboratory (GASL) are presented. Skin friction coefficients between 0.001 - 0.005 were measured dependent on the facility and measurement location. Analysis of the measurement uncertainties indicate an accuracy to within +/- 10-15 percent of the streamwise component.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 19930004482.
Accession ID: 93N13670.
NASA. Langley Research Center, The 1992 NASA Langley Measurement Technology Conference: Measurement Technology for Aerospace Applications in High-Temperature Environments; p 171-188. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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