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Theory of an Airplane Encountering Gusts, 3

Description: Report presents a new method for solving linear equations developed by Bromwich, which is suited to determine the motion for any particular gust, when the machine started from equilibrium, without the trouble of determining the constants of integration in the complementary function. (author).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Wilson, Edwin Bidwell
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Training of Aeronautical Engineers

Description: The requirements and preliminary coursework for aeronautical engineering are discussed. Some of the specific mechanical engineering properties that must be understood are provided. The report is incomplete.
Date: October 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Laboratory Testing of the Inflammability of Coal and other Dusts Conducted by the Bureau of Mines

Description: From Introduction: "This paper endeavors to collect and describe all of the work in proper order, as briefly as is consistent with a good understanding thereof, and attempts to evaluate it in the light of present-day knowledge derived from large and small scale experiments in the United States and foreign countries."
Date: October 1931
Creator: Greenwald, H. P.
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The physical effects of detonation in a closed cylindrical chamber

Description: Detonation in the internal-combustion engine is studied as a physical process. It is shown that detonation is accompanied by pressure waves within the cylinder charge. Sound theory is applied to the calculation of resonant pressure-wave frequencies. Apparatus is described for direct measurement of pressure-wave frequencies. Frequencies determined from two engines of different cylinder sizes are shown to agree with the values calculated from sound theory. An outline of the theoretically possible… more
Date: October 1933
Creator: Draper, C. S.
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Smelting Ores in the Electric Furnace

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the electric smelting of nonferrous ores. As stated in the introduction, "it is the purpose of the present paper to survey the technical and economic changes that have taken place and to determine whether electric smelting of nonferrous ores offers any more promise today than 20 years ago" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: October 1937
Creator: Dean, Reginald S. & von Bernewitz, M. W.
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The Oscillating Wing With Aerodynamically Balanced Elevator

Description: "The two-dimensional problem of the oscillating wing with aerodynamically balanced elevator is treated in the manner that the wing is replaced by a plate with bends and stages and the airfoil section by a mean line consisting of one or more straights. The computed formulas and tables permit, on these premises, the prediction of the pressure distribution and of the aerodynamic reactions of oscillating elevators and tabs with any position of elevator hinge in respect to elevator leading edge" (p.… more
Date: October 1941
Creator: Küssner, H. G. & Schwartz, I.
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Heat Transfer Over the Circumference of a Heated Cylinder in Transverse Flow

Description: "A method for recording the local heat-transfer coefficients on bodies in flow was developed. The cylinder surface was kept at constant temperature by the condensation of vapor except for a narrow strip which is heated separately to the same temperature by electricity. The heat-transfer coefficient at each point was determined from the electric heat output and the temperature increase" (p. 1).
Date: October 1943
Creator: Schmidt, Ernst & Wenner, Karl
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Use of Stagnation Temperature in Calculating Rate of Heat Transfer in Aircraft Heat Exchangers

Description: "Theoretical and experimental investigations of the effect of frictional heat on the rate of heat transmission at high fluid velocities are briefly reviewed. On the basis of these investigations, calculations are made which show that the use of the stagnation temperature of the cooling air as the effective temperature for heat transfer in an aircraft heat exchanger is sufficiently accurate" (p. 1).
Date: October 1943
Creator: Wood, George P.
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Some Cases of Pile Activity Flattening

Description: Radial flattening of activity in the cores of spherical and cylindrical piles is discussed in connection with pile control and power improvement. Partial flattening as a result of k loss from temperature rise is also considered.
Date: October 10, 1943
Creator: Morehouse, N. & Young, G.
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Heat Transfer in a Turbulent Liquid or Gas Stream

Description: "The theory of heat.transfer from a solid body to a liquid stream could he presented previously only with limiting assumptions about the movement of the fluid (potential flow, laminar frictional flow). (See references 1, 2, and 3). For turbulent flow, the most important practical case, the previous theoretical considerations did not go beyond dimensionless formulas and certain conclusions as to the analogy between the friction factor and the unit thermal conductance, (See references 4, 5, 6, an… more
Date: October 1944
Creator: Latzko, H.
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Introduction to Diffusion Theory and to Pile-Theory

Description: The following report describes and foretells the situation in medium in which neutrons are being (a)produced as fast neutrons, (b) slowed down to thermal speeds by impacts with nuclei, and (c) absorbed by nuclei in such a manner that sometimes fresh fast neutrons appear at the place where a thermal neutron has just appeared.
Date: October 5, 1944
Creator: Darrow, Karl K.
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H-Metal Lined Sphere

Description: The problem of lining a hollow aluminum sphere, 10 inches i.d., with lunes of heavy metal foil, was assigned to this group by Dr. E. Creutz. The work was carried out under the direct supervision of Dr. D.H. Gurinsky. the problem was divided naturally into tow parts: first, forming fitting the lunes, and second, cementing hem to the inside of the sphere.
Date: October 10, 1944
Creator: Young, Dwight S.
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