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Icing-protection requirements for reciprocating-engine induction system

Description: From Summary: "Despite the development of relatively ice-free fuel-metering systems, the widespread use of alternate and heated-air intakes, and the use of alcohol for emergency de-icing, icing of aircraft-engine induction systems is a serious problem. Investigations have been made to study and to combat all phases of this icing problem. From these investigations, criterions for safe operation and for design of new induction systems have been established. The results were obtained from laborato… more
Date: June 20, 1949
Creator: Coles, Willard D.; Rollin, Vern G. & Mulholland, Donald R.
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Line-Vortex Theory for Calculation of Supersonic Downwash

Description: "The perturbation field induced by a line vortex in a supersonic stream and the downwash behind a supersonic lifting surface are examined to establish approximate methods for determining the downwash behind supersonic wings. Lifting-lines methods are presented for calculating supersonic downwash. A bent lifting-line method is proposed for computing the downwash field behind swept wings. When applied to triangular wings with subsonic leading edges, this method gives results that, in general, are… more
Date: April 29, 1949
Creator: Mirels, Harold & Haefeli, Rudolph C.
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A radar method of calibrating airspeed installations on airplanes in maneuvers at high altitudes and at transonic and supersonic speeds

Description: A method of calibrating the static-pressure source of a pitot static airspeed installation on an airplane in level flight, dives, and other maneuvers at high altitude and at transonic and supersonic speeds is described. The method principally involves the use of radar-phototheodolite tracking equipment. The various sources of error in the method are discussed and sample calibrations are included.
Date: August 31, 1949
Creator: Zalovcik, John A.
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The reversibility theorem for thin airfoils in subsonic and supersonic flow

Description: A method introduced by Munk is extended to prove that the light-curve slope of thin wings in either subsonic flow or supersonic flow is the same when the direction of flight of the wing is reversed. It is also shown that the wing reversal does not change the thickness drag, damping-in-roll parameter or the damping-in-pitch parameter.
Date: June 26, 1949
Creator: Brown, Clinton E.
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Equilibrium Operating Performance of Axial-Flow Turbojet Engines by Means of Idealized Analysis

Description: "A method of predicting equilibrium operating performance of turbojet engines has been developed, with the assumption of simple model processes for the components. Results of the analysis are plotted in terms of dimensionless parameters comprising critical engine dimensions and over-all operating variables. This investigation was made of an engine in which the ratio of axial inlet-air velocity to compressor-tip velocity is constant, which approximates turbojet engines with axial-flow compressor… more
Date: February 25, 1949
Creator: Sanders, John C. & Chapin, Edward C.
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Plastic Buckling of a Rectangular Plate Under Edge Thrusts

Description: "The fundamental equations for the plastic buckling of a rectangular plate under edge thrusts are developed on the basis of a new set of stress-strain relations for the behavior of a metal in the plastic range. These relations are derived for buckling from a state of uniform compression. The fundamental equation for the buckling of a simply compressed plate together with typical boundary conditions is then developed and the results are applied to calculating the buckling loads of a thin strip, … more
Date: 1949
Creator: Handelman, G. H. & Prager, W.
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The development of cambered airfoil sections having favorable lift characteristics at supercritical Mach numbers

Description: Several groups of new airfoil sections, designated as the NACA 8-series, are derived analytically to have lift characteristics at supercritical Mach numbers which are favorable in the sense that the abrupt loss of lift, characteristic of the usual airfoil section at Mach numbers above the critical, is avoided. Aerodynamic characteristics determined from two-dimensional wind-tunnel tests at Mach numbers up to approximately 0.9 are presented for each of the derived airfoils. Comparisons are made … more
Date: 1949
Creator: Graham, Donald J.
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An apparatus for varying effective dihedral in flight with application to a study of tolerable dihedral on a conventional fighter airplane

Description: From Summary: "An apparatus for varying effective dihedral in flight by means of servo actuation of the ailerons in response to sideslip angle is described. The results of brief flight tests of the apparatus on a conventional fighter airplane are presented and discussed. The results of an investigation employing the apparatus to determine the tolerable (safe for normal fighter operation) range of effective dihedral on the test airplane are presented."
Date: August 24, 1949
Creator: Kauffman, William M.; Liddell, Charles J., Jr.; Smith, Allan & Van Dyke, Rudolph D., Jr.
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Investigation of a Systematic Group of NACA 1-Series Cowlings With and Without Spinners

Description: Report presents the results of an investigation conducted in the Langley propeller research tunnel to study cowling-spinner combinations based on the NACA 1-series nose inlets and to obtain systematic design data for one family of approximately ellipsoidal spinners. In the main part of the investigation, 11 of the related spinners were tested in various combinations with 9 NACA open-nose cowlings, which were also tested without spinners. The effects of location and shape of the spinner, shape o… more
Date: 1949
Creator: Nichols, Mark R. & Keith, Arvid L., Jr.
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Use of source distributions for evaluating theoretical aerodynamics of thin finite wings at supersonic speeds

Description: From Summary: "A series of publications on the source-distribution methods for evaluating the aerodynamics of thin wings at supersonic speeds is summarized, extended, and unified. Included in the first part are the deviations of: (a) the linearized partial-differential equation for unsteady flow at a substantially constant Mach number. b) The source-distribution solution for the perturbation-velocity potential that satisfies the boundary conditions of tangential flow at the surface and in the p… more
Date: June 17, 1949
Creator: Evvard, John C.
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Direct method of design and stress analysis of rotating disks with temperature gradient

Description: A method is presented for the determination of the contour of disks, typified by those of aircraft gas turbines, to incorporate arbitrary elastic-stress distributions resulting from either centrifugal or combined centrifugal and thermal effects. The specified stress may be radial, tangential, or any combination of the two. Use is made of the finite-difference approach in solving the stress equations, the amount of computation necessary in the evolution of a design being greatly reduced by the j… more
Date: April 4, 1949
Creator: Manson, S. S.
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Constant-Pressure Combustion Charts Including Effects of Diluent Addition

Description: "Charts are presented for the calculation of (a) the final temperatures and the temperature changes involved in constant-pressure combustion processes of air and in products of combustion of air and hydrocarbon fuels, and (b) the quantity of hydrocarbon fuels required in order to attain a specified combustion temperature when water, alcohol, water-alcohol mixtures, liquid ammonia, liquid carbon dioxide, liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, or their mixtures are added to air as diluents or refrigeran… more
Date: 1949
Creator: Turner, L. Richard & Bogart, Donald
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Summary of section data on trailing-edge high-lift devices

Description: "A summary has been made of available data on the characteristics of airfoil sections with trailing-edge high-lift devices. Data for plain, split, and slotted flaps are collected and analyzed. The effects of each of the variables involved in the design of the various types of flap are examined and, in cases where sufficient data are given, optimum configurations are deduced. Wherever possible, the effects of airfoil section, Reynolds number, and leading-edge roughness are shown. For single and … more
Date: 1949
Creator: Cahill, Jones F.
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Theoretical characteristics in supersonic flow of two types of control surfaces on triangular wings

Description: From Summary :"Methods based on the linearized theory for supersonic flow were used to find the characteristics of two types of control surfaces on thin triangular wings. The first type, the constant-chord partial-span flap, was considered to extend either outboard from the center of the wing or inboard from the wing tip. The second type, the full-triangular-tip flap, was treated only for the case in which the Mach number component normal to the leading edge is supersonic. For each type, expres… more
Date: 1949
Creator: Tucker, Warren A. & Nelson, Robert L.
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The design of low-turbulence wind tunnels

Description: From Summary: "Within the past 10 years there have been placed in operation in the United States four low-turbulence wind tunnels of moderate cross-sectional area and speed, one at the National Bureau of Standards, two at the NACA Langley Laboratory, and one at the NACA Ames Laboratory. This paper reviews briefly the state of knowledge and those features which make possible the attainment of low turbulence in wind tunnels. Specific applications to two wind tunnels are described."
Date: 1949
Creator: Dryden, Hugh L. & Abbott, Ira H.
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A simplified method for the determination and analysis of the neutral-lateral-oscillatory-stability boundary

Description: A necessary condition for neutral oscillatory stability is that Routh's discriminant r, formed from the coefficients of the stability equation, is equal to zero. Computations obtained from rsub1=0 and d=0 show very good agreement with the results calculated by the expression for r=0. The nature of the modes of motion as a function of the directional-stability derivative and the effective-dihedral derivative is discussed in detail.
Date: 1949
Creator: Sternfield, Leonard & Gates, Ordway B., Jr.
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Heat transfer to bodies traveling at high speed in the upper atmosphere

Description: A general method has been developed, using the methods of kinetic theory, whereby the surface temperatures of bodies can be calculated for steady flight at any speed in a rarefied gas. The particular solution was made for a flat plate; however, the calculations can be easily extended to bodies of arbitrary shape.
Date: 1949
Creator: Stalder, Jackson R. & Jukoff, David
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Investigation at low speeds of the effect of aspect ratio and sweep on rolling stability derivatives of untapered wings

Description: A low-scale wind-tunnel investigation was conducted in rolling flow to determine the effects of aspect ratio and sweep (when varied independently) on the rolling stability derivatives for a series of untapered wings. The rolling-flow equipment of the Langley stability tunnel was used for the tests. The data of the investigation have been used to develop a method of accounting for the effects of the drag on the yawing moment due to rolling throughout the lift range.
Date: January 19, 1949
Creator: Goodman, Alex & Fisher, Lewis R.
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The effect of torsional flexibility on the rolling characteristics at supersonic speeds of tapered unswept wings

Description: From Summary: "An analysis is presented of the effect of torsional flexibility on the rolling characteristics at supersonic speeds of tapered unswept wings with partial-span constant-percent-chord ailerons extending inboard from the wing tip. The geometric variables considered are aspect ratio, taper ratio, aileron span, and aileron chord. The shape of the wing-torsional-stiffness curve is assumed and the twisting moment is considered to result solely from the pressure distribution caused by ai… more
Date: March 8, 1949
Creator: Tucker, Warren A. & Nelson, Robert L.
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Attainable Circulation About Airfoils in Cascade

Description: "From consideration of available information on boundary-layer behavior, a relation among profile thickness, maximum surface velocity, Reynolds number, velocity diagram, and solidity is established for a cascade of airfoils immersed in a two-dimensional incompressible fluid flow. Several cascades are computed to show the effect of various cascade design parameters on minimum required cascade solidity. Comparisons with experimentally determined blade performance show that the derived blade loadi… more
Date: September 1949
Creator: Goldstein, Arthur W. & Mager, Artur
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Two-dimensional compressible flow in centrifugal compressors with straight blades

Description: "Six numerical examples are presented for steady, two-dimensional, compressible, nonviscous flow in centrifugal compressors with thin straight blades, the center lines of which generate the surface of a right circular cone when rotated about the axis of the compressor. A seventh example is presented for incompressible flow. The solutions were obtained in a region of the compressors, including the impeller tip, that was considered to be unaffected by the diffuser vanes or by the impeller-inlet c… more
Date: June 21, 1949
Creator: Stanitz, John D. & Ellis, Gaylord O.
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Application of Radial-Equilibrium Condition to Axial-Flow Compressor and Turbine Design

Description: "Basic general equations governing the three-dimensional compressible flow of gas through a compressor or turbine are given in terms of total enthalpy, entropy, and velocity components of the gas. Two methods of solution are obtained for the simplified, steady axially symmetric flow; one involves the use of a number of successive planes normal to the axis of the machine and short distances apart, and the other involves only three stations for a stage in which an appropriate radial-flow path is … more
Date: January 1, 1949
Creator: Wu, Chung-Hua & Wolfenstein, Lincoln
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Laminar mixing of a compressible fluid

Description: From Summary: "A theoretical investigation of the velocity profiles for laminar mixing of a high-velocity stream with a region of fluid at rest has been made assuming that the Prandtl number is unity. A method which involves only quadratures is presented for calculating the velocity profile in the mixing layer for an arbitrary value of the free-stream Mach number. Detailed velocity profiles have been calculated for free-stream Mach numbers of 0, 1, 2, 3, and 5."
Date: January 5, 1949
Creator: Chapman, Dean R.
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Investigation with an interferometer of the turbulent mixing of a free supersonic jet

Description: The free turbulent mixing of a supersonic jet of Mach number 1.6 has been experimentally investigated. An interferometer, of which a description is given, was used for the investigation. Density and velocity distributions through the mixing zone have been obtained. It was found that there was similarity in distribution at the cross sections investigated and that, in the subsonic portion of the mixing zone, the velocity distribution fitted the theoretical distribution for incompressible flow. It… more
Date: January 21, 1949
Creator: Gooderum, Paul B.; Wood, George P. & Brevoort, Maurice J.
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