Experimental investigation of ventilated cavities.

A wedge with a 3.5 inch chord and a half-angle of 4.1 degrees is tested in the MIT Propeller Tunnel. No pulsations were observed on the cavity. Thus, the attempt to verify the theory that pulsations are possible in an infinite medium (without a free surface) is inconclusive. Although there exis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinnear, Richard James
Other Authors: Leehey, Patrick
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/12163