Bi-Directional, Buried-Wire Skin-Friction Gage

By: Nasa, National Aeronautics and Space Adm

A compact, nonobtrusive, bi-directional, skin-friction gage was developed to measure the mean shear stress beneath a three-dimensional boundary layer. The gage works by measuring the heat flux from two orthogonal wires embedded in the surface. Such a gage was constructed and its characteristics were determined for different angles of yaw in a calibration experiment in subsonic flow with a Preston tube used as a standard. Sample gages were then used in a fully three-dimensional turbulent boundary layer on a circular cone at high relative incidence, where there were regimes of favorable and adverse pressure gradients and three-dimensional separation. Both the direction and magnitude of skin friction were then obtained on the cone surface. Higuchi, H. and Peake, D. J. Ames Research Center NASA-TM-78531, A-7637 RTOP 505-06-11-06

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1720216010
• ISBN13: 9781720216018
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"