26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-6.3.3

SCALING OF MIXED CONVECTION IN AIRCRAFT CABINS

A. Westhoff, J. Bosbach, C. Wagner
DLR, Germany

Keywords: Mixed Convection, Scaling, POD, Indoor Climatisation, Particle Image Velocimetry

The phenomenon mixed convection occurs in many technical applications and nature. Often the flow is of large scale and direct experimental studies are difficult. Hence, measurements at reduced model size are highly desirable. For this we developed a convection cell to prove a concept of spatial scaling for mixed convection.

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