| Abstract |
The pressure distribution on systems with wings and blades is an important indication of the systems performance. However, measuring these distributions is currently challenging. A specially instrumented wing or blade must be used to replace the existing one in the system in order to obtain these measurements. This is prohibitively expensive and time consuming. Pressure belts overcome these challenges, by being able to conform to airfoil geometries and gather pressure measurements from existing blades or wing. In this paper, 3 different manufacturing techniques were explored to construct pressure belts and their performance was assessed in a wind tunnel. The results suggest additive manufacturing is a promising technique and the distributions measured from the belt were ver similar to those of the airfoil. |
| Authors |
Bradley Vandervoort  , Jonathan Naughton  , Pourya Nikoueeyan
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| Journal Info |
Not listed | AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum
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| Publication Date |
6/8/2023 |
| ISSN |
Not listed |
Type |
article |
| Open Access |
closed
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| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3678 |
| Keywords |
Wind Estimation (Score: 0.535641) , Aerodynamic Modeling (Score: 0.506163)
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