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Contracting ducts of finite length

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

L. G. Whitehead ,
L. Y. Wu  and
M. H. L. Waters
L. G. Whitehead
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
L. Y. Wu
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
M. H. L. Waters
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
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Summmary

A method of design is given for wind tunnel contractions for two-dimensional flow and for flow with axial symmetry. The two-dimensional designs are based on a boundary chosen in the hodograph plane for which the flow is found by the method of images. The three-dimensional method uses the velocity potential and the stream function of the two-dimensional flow as independent variables and the equation for the three-dimensional stream function is solved approximately. The accuracy of the approximate method is checked by comparison with a solution obtained by Southwell's relaxation method.

In both the two and the three-dimensional designs the curved wall is of finite length with parallel sections upstream and downstream. The effects of the parallel parts of the channel on the rise of pressure near the wall at the start of the contraction and on the velocity distribution across the working section can therefore be estimated.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , February 1951 , pp. 254 - 271
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1951

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