History of Wind Tunnels at Cal Tech

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Khorrami
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
History Of

Customized Profiles — The Beginning of an Era: A Short History of Blade Design

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanns-Juergen Lichtfuss
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Laminar Flow ◽  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
Blade Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Short History ◽  
Compressor Blades ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
Made In

The paper presents the evolutionary progress made in the design process of turbo machines from using standardized profiles — for turbine and compressor blades — towards individual profile designs. The emerging new power of numerical methods on continuously faster running electronic computers has made this progress possible. In addition there were regularly experimental verifications in cascade wind tunnels and turbo machinery test beds as well as applications of new design strategies. These strategies, i.e. naturally laminar flow in turbines and supercritical flow in compressors, also made use of reinvented inverse methods, as one tool to optimise problematic areas.

scholarly journals Discussion on Aircraft Technology and It's Impact on Architecture in the Architectural History of 1903-1940

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedime Tuba YusufoÄŸlu
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
World War ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Republic Of Turkey

Having been invented at the beginning of 20th century, aircraft is the concrete success of human being related to flying fantasy, which has been existing for centuries. The centuries-old studies accelerated in the 19th century and it has been finally succeeded to take off under Wright Brothers in 1903 together with scientific and technologic processes. A creative energy boosted at the beginning of 20th century and a new age, ”age of aviation and aircraft” emerged. The politic a atmosphere  in the world was considerably tense at the beginning of 20th century. World War I and World War II were experienced. War Effort was directly effective in the development of aircraft and aviation architecture. In terms of aviation architecture, aircraft hangars, aircraft factories, wind tunnels, runways and airports can be considered. Birth and development of aircraft industry are in parallel with birth and development of modern architecture (and organic architecture). The period between 1918-1939 is characterized as “Golden Age” of aviation in the West (particularly in the U.S). The literature and archive resources have been reviewed in the Republic of Turkey simultaneously. In this article, interactions between aircraft technology and aviation architecture are discussed.

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