Wind-tunnel investigation of the heat transfer to the X-15 airplanePaper describes the wind tunnel test program which has provided a picture of the general distribution of heat transfer coefficients over the X-15 airplane. The tunnel tests have emphasized the importance of the interactions of the flow fields of components and have shown that in some cases, where the local flow direction and total pressure can be reasonably closely inferred, use of experimental pressures to compute flow conditions yields very good predictions of heat transfer rate. There are still some regions of the airplane for which the heat transfer could not be adequately studied because of the size or construction of the model. Such local regions will not necessarily limit the operation of the airplane but will require evaluation in the full-scale tests. (author)
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19930092394
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Legacy CDMS
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Authors
Feller, William V
Burbank, Paige B
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
July 30, 1958
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93R21684
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