DEFINITION:
Includes all types of wind tunnels and other test facilities for the design and analysis of space vehicles, both for internal and external flow.
(Source: ESA TD 18B)
SUBDOMAINS:
- Cold Gas Facilities: Continuous and blow-down wind tunnels, ballistic ranges, etc.
- Hot Gas Facilities: Arc-heated, piston driven, detonation driven, etc.
- Dedicated Facilities: Contamination, hovering, base flow-jet interaction, etc.
Browsing taxonomies
Upper level
Sections at this level
- 01 Heat Transport Technology
- 02 Cryogenics and Refrigeration
- 03 Thermal protections
- 04 Heat Storage and Rejection
- 05 Thermal Analysis Tools
- 06 Aero-thermodynamics Numerical Methods
- 07 Aero-thermodynamics Ground Based Facilities
- 08 Aero-thermodynamics Sensors and Measurement Techniques
- 09 Aero-thermodynamics Flight Databases