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2. Wind tunnel architecture
2.1 Subsonic and transsonic wind tunnels
These are the most frequently encountered installations, since they correspond to the flight envelope of a large proportion of aircraft, and in particular all civil aircraft. Although they cover different flight envelopes, their architecture is largely similar, as shown in figure 4 .
Subsonic wind tunnels cover the Mach number range from 0 to around 0.6, for which gas compressibility effects remain moderate (see figure 2 ). Transonic wind tunnels...
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Standards and norms
- Flight mechanics – concepts, quantities and symbols. - ISO 1151 - 1988
- Mesure de débit des fluides au moyen d'appareils déprimogènes insérés dans des conduites en charge de section circulaire (parties 1 à 4). - ISO 5167 - (2003)
Websites
Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (ONERA - French national aerospace research agency)
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels
European Transonic Wind Tunnel ETW
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