Report No. 291. Drag of C-Class Airship Hulls of Various Fineness Ratios: by A.F. Zahm, R.H. Smith, and F.A. Louden. 16 pages, illustrations, quarto. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1928, price ten cents
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1928
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 206
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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โฆ Synopsis
In this report prepared for publication by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in June, 1927, are outlined the three current methods of comparing dynamically similar motions, more especially of fluids, initiated respectively by Newton, Stokes (or Helmholtz), and Rayleigh. These three methods, viz., the integral, the differential, and the dimensional, are enough alike to be studied profitably together.
They will presently be treated in succession, then compared.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
This report gives the results of pressure-distribution tests made to study the effects on lateral stability of changing the span-load distribution on a rectangular monoplane wing model of fairly thick section. Three methods of changing the distribution were employed: variation in profile along the s