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The Use of Wind Tunnels in the Study of Problems in Industrial Aerodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. R. Collar
A. R. Collar*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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I am going to restrict myself to consideration of those problems which arise from the natural wind, and I am going to begin—and perhaps also to continue—with what may be, to paraphrase one of our Chairman’s expressions, some offensively simple . considerations. I do this because, in our studies of industrial aerodynamics, we are increasingly applying the sophisticated techniques developed from years of aircraft aerodynamics; and there is always a danger that, unless we go back to fundamentals, we may invoke a theorem or technique from aircraft practice which is inappropriate for an industrial problem. First of all, therefore, I shall go back to square one.

Type
Industrial Aerodynamics
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 665 , May 1966 , pp. 574 - 581
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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