A Description of the Imperial College Arc-Heated Wind Tunnel
- 1 February 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- Vol. 66 (622), 637-641
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000089375
Abstract
Summary This paper describes the plasma jet which has recently been put into operation in tha Department of Aeronautics. A brief outline of the apparatus and its equipment is given, and methods are described for obtaining data from the high temperature gas stream. Finally some results of a recent test programme are outlined.Keywords
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