The results of an experimental investigation of the influence of spin and nose bluntness on the boundary layer characteristics and side force of a secant ogive nose axisymmetric body are presented. Smoke visualization data for the sharp and 10%, 20% and 30% spherically blunted noses were correlated with side forces measured at Reynolds numbers of 315,000 and 1,030,000, and spin rates up to 6000 rpm for angles of attack from 0 deg to 10 deg. Boundary layer flow asymmetries were correlated with the side forces measured to provide some insight into the origin of the side forces. (Author).

This revised edition provides updated fluid mechanics measurement techniques as well as a comprehensive review of flow properties required for research, development, and application. Fluid-mechanics measurements in wind tunnel studies, aeroacoustics, and turbulent mixing layers, the theory of fluid mechanics, the application of the laws of fluid mechanics to measurement techniques, techniques of thermal anemometry, laser velocimetry, volume flow measurement techniques, and fluid mechanics measurement in non-Newtonian fluids, and various other techniques are discussed.

Based on a symposium held in June 1986 in Minneapolis, USA, this volume surveys current information on turbulence measurement and modelling, computational fluid mechanics, vortex flow and physical modelling, cavitation and two-phase flow, bluff body flow and fluid structure interaction.