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To advance boundary-layer stability and transition research and to ultimately provide reliable predictions of transition for supersonic flight vehicles, a wind tunnel is required with very low stream disturbance levels comparable to free flight conditions. A new concept for nozzle design is presented which promises a large increase in the length of the quiet test core. The Advanced Mach 3.5 Axisymmetric Quiet Nozzle is the first prototype built to prove the new design concept. The Reynolds numbers based on the measured length of the quiet test core for this new nozzle are in excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions.
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Chen, FJ., Malik, M.R., Beckwith, I.E. (1990). On the Design of a New MACH 3.5 Quiet Nozzle. In: Hussaini, M.Y., Voigt, R.G. (eds) Instability and Transition. ICASE/ NASA LaRC Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3432-6_19
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