SECTION 1 Introduction 1. A brief history of the genesis of wind tunnels 2. Types and uses of wind tunnels 3. Dynamic similarity SECTION 2 Wind tunnel design and circuit aerodynamics 4. Subsonic wind tunnel design 5. Boundary interference assessment, alleviation, and correction 6. Model supports and support interference evaluation 7. Transonic wind tunnels 8.
Supersonic wind tunnels 9. Hypersonic test facilities 10. Force and Moment Balances 11. Model design and construction 12. Special topics SECTION 3 Operational and Test Procedures 13. Statistical Engineering Practices 14. Wind tunnel calibration 15. Flow quality assessment 16.
Force and moment measurements 17. Facility instrumentation 18. Planning of Test Campaigns SECTION 4 Wind tunnel test techniques 19. Pressure surveys 20. Dynamic testing 21. Facility-to-facility, facility-to-CFD, facility-to-flight correlation SECTION 5 Measurement Techniques 22. Flow visualization 23. Nonintrusive quantitative flow field measurements SECTION 6 Postscript 24.
The role of CFD in aerodynamic research 25. The future of ground testing SECTION 7 APPENDICES A. A primer on statistical engineering B. Strain-gage balance calibration example.