Support system optimization and support interference compensation for high speed wind tunnel testing

Abstract

Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, South Africa, 1-4 July, 2007.

This paper mainly develops a numerical procedure to evaluate the interference of a support system and to optimize the shape of the support system to minimize the interference. The method is used to compute the support interference on a high-speed wind tunnel test article. The numerical compensated test result is also presented in this paper, and the result show that the correction method developed in this paper is reasonable and efficient.