Critical Pressure of Spherical Shell Acrylic Windows Under Short-Term Pressure Loading

1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-584
Author(s):  
J. D. Stachiw
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Shell ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Convex Surface ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Pressure Loading ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Model Scale ◽  
Hydrostatic Loading ◽  
Sector Angle

Model and full scale acrylic windows in the form of spherical shell lenses with parallel convex and concave surfaces have been imploded by loading their convex surface hydro-statically at 650 psi/min rate while their concave surface was exposed to atmospheric pressure. The thickness of the model scale windows varied from 0.250 to 1.200 in. and of the full scale windows from 0.564 to 4.000 in., while the included spherical sector angle of the lens varied from 30 to 180 degrees in thirty degree increments. The low pressure face diameters of the model scale windows varied from 1.423 to 5.500 in., while those of the full scale windows varied from 6.200 to 35.868 in. In addition to critical pressures, displacement of the lens under hydrostatic pressure has been recorded and plotted as functions of pressure. The critical pressures of spherical acrylic windows have been found to be consistently higher than those of conical or flat disc acrylic windows of same thickness and low pressure face diameter subjected to short-term hydrostatic loading.

A New Method of Modeling Underexpanded Exhaust Plumes for Wind Tunnel Aerodynamic Testing

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-754
Author(s):  
V. Salemann ◽  
J. M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Free Stream ◽  
Dynamic Pressure ◽  
Pressure Ratio ◽  
Area Ratio ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
New Method ◽  
Thrust Coefficient ◽  
Model Scale ◽  
Exhaust Plumes

A new method for modeling hot underexpanded exhaust plumes with cold model scale plumes in aerodynamic wind tunnel testing has been developed. The method is applicable to aeropropulsion testing where significant interaction between the exhaust and the free stream and aftbody may be present. The technique scales the model and nozzle external geometry, including the nozzle exit area, matches the model jet to free-stream dynamic pressure ratio to full-scale jet to free-stream dynamic pressure ratio, and matches the model thrust coefficient to full-scale thrust coefficient. The technique does not require scaling of the internal nozzle geometry. A generalized method of characteristic computer code was used to predict the plume shapes of a hot (γ = 1.2) half-scale nozzle of area ratio 3.2 and of a cold (γ = 1.4) model scale nozzle of area ratio 1.3, whose pressure ratio and area ratio were selected to satisfy the above criteria and other testing requirements. The plume shapes showed good agreement. Code validity was checked by comparing code results for cold air exhausting into a quiescent atmosphere to pilot surveys and shadowgraphs of model nozzle plumes taken in a static facility.

Development of a Scaled Rotor Blade for Tank Tests of Floating Wind Turbine Systems

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schünemann ◽  
Timo Zwisele ◽  
Frank Adam ◽  
Uwe Ritschel
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Rotor Blade ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Power Coefficient ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Model Scale ◽  
Floating Wind Turbine ◽  
Hydrodynamic Effects ◽  
Wind Turbine Rotor

Floating wind turbine systems will play an important role for a sustainable energy supply in the future. The dynamic behavior of such systems is governed by strong couplings of aerodynamic, structural mechanic and hydrodynamic effects. To examine these effects scaled tank tests are an inevitable part of the design process of floating wind turbine systems. Normally Froude scaling is used in tank tests. However, using Froude scaling also for the wind turbine rotor will lead to wrong aerodynamic loads compared to the full-scale turbine. Therefore the paper provides a detailed description of designing a modified scaled rotor blade mitigating this problem. Thereby a focus is set on preserving the tip speed ratio of the full scale turbine, keeping the thrust force behavior of the full scale rotor also in model scale and additionally maintaining the power coefficient between full scale and model scale. This is achieved by completely redesigning the original blade using a different airfoil. All steps of this redesign process are explained using the example of the generic DOWEC 6MW wind turbine. Calculations of aerodynamic coefficients are done with the software tools XFoil and AirfoilPrep and the resulting thrust and power coefficients are obtained by running several simulations with the software AeroDyn.

scholarly journals Experimental study on the effect of spray cone angle on the characteristics of horizontal jet spray flame under sub-atmospheric pressure

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5 Part A) ◽  
pp. 2941-2952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Xie ◽  
Xingqi Qiu ◽  
Yunjing Cui ◽  
Jianxin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Cone Angle ◽  
Flame Temperature ◽  
Normal Pressure ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Dimensionless Temperature ◽  
Thermal Imager ◽  
Spray Cone Angle ◽  
Spray Cone ◽  
Matlab Programming

The burning state of a plateau environment is attracting more and more attention. In this paper, in order to have a deeper scientific understanding of diesel spray combustion and the characteristics of a flame under different spray cone angles in a plateau environment, experiments were carried out in a low pressure chamber. The flame morphology was recorded by a high speed video instrument, and the temperature change was recorded by a thermal imager and thermocouples. The MATLAB programming was used to process the video image of the flame, and the probability of its binarization was calculated. The results indicate that the flame becomes longer and wider under different pressures with the same spray angle. The variation is more pronounced at a smaller spray taper angle. The flame uplifted height characteristic is mainly negatively related to the atmospheric pressure. According to the normalized flame temperature and the dimensionless horizontal projection, the length can be divided into three regions. In the region of buoyancy flame, the dimensionless temperature varies with sub-atmospheric pressure more than with normal pressure. In addition, under different spray cone angle conditions, the law of variation in the normalized flame temperature under sub-atmospheric pressure is exactly opposite to that under normal pressure. This study is of great significance to the scientific research on flames in a low pressure environment, and the design of different fuel nozzles for application in a plateau environment.

Atmospheric Pressure Loading

2013 ◽  
pp. 137-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudy D. Wijaya ◽  
Johannes Böhm ◽  
Maria Karbon ◽  
Hana Kràsnà ◽  
Harald Schuh
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Pressure Loading ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure Loading
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