Statistical analysis of in-flight hot-film signals of transitional flows

3-D High-Lift Flow-Physics Experiment - Transition Measurements

“…Incorporation of the measured transition locations into CFD codes 5 demonstrated that when the measured transition locations were used in the computation, the slat wake was not correctly predicted. They concluded that further research was needed in the implementation of transition in high-lift CFD computations Two examples of 3-D high-lift studies involving transition are the experiments conducted under EUROLIFT 6 and the NASA 737 Experiment 7 . In the EUROLIFT wind-tunnel experiment, twenty-four hot-film sensors and infrared thermography were used to document transition.…”