Question: 1 . 2 7 Consider two airfoils tested in two different environments where Airfoil 2 is a three times scale replica of Airfoil 1 .

1.27 Consider two airfoils tested in two different environments where Airfoil 2 is a three times scale replica of Airfoil 1.
a. Determine if these flows are dynamically similar assuming that both and a are proportional to T12.
b. If the flows are similar, explain why. If the flows are not similar, what one parameter would you change in Test 2 to make them
similar and what would its new value be?
c. Now assume that Airfoil 2 is no longer a three times scale replica of Airfoil 1. Airfoil 2 still has a chord that is three times
larger than that of Airfoil 1, but now Airfoil 1 is symmetric whereas Airfoil 2 has positive camber. Are these two flows
dynamically similar (assuming both and a are proportional to T12) or could they be made similar by changing one
experimental parameter as in b?
1 . 2 7 Consider two airfoils tested in two

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