Book Description

In high speed flight, the state of the boundary layer can strongly influence the design of vehicles through its effect on skin friction drag and aerodynamic heating. The major mechanisms causing boundary layer transition on high speed vehicles are briefly reviewed and some empirical relations from the unclassified literature are given for the transition Reynolds numbers. Tauber, M. E. Ames Research Center NASA-TM-102834, A-90186, NAS 1.15:102834 RTOP 591-42-11...