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AGARD-B wind tunnel model

AGARD-B is a standard wind tunnel model that is used to verify, by comparison of test results with previously published data, the measurement chain in a wind tunnel. Together with its derivative AGARD-C it belongs to a family of AGARD standard wind tunnel models. Its origin dates to the year 1952, and the Second Meeting of the AGARD Wind Tunnel and Model Testing Panel in Rome, Italy, when it was decided to define two standard wind tunnel model configurations to be used for exchange of test data and comparison of test results of same models tested in different wind tunnels. The idea was to establish standards of comparison between wind tunnels and improve the validity of wind tunnel tests. Among the standard wind tunnel models, AGARD model configuration B (AGARD-B) has become by far the most popular. Initially intended for the supersonic wind tunnels, the AGARD-B configuration has since been tested in many wind tunnels at a wide range of Mach numbers, from low subsonic, through transonic to hypersonic. Therefore, a considerable database of test results is available.

AGARD-C
At the AGARD Wind Tunnel and Model Testing Panel meeting in Paris, France, in 1954, it was agreed to add a third model configuration to the family of AGARD calibration models, by extending the body of the AGARD-B by 1.5 diameters and by adding a horizontal and a vertical tail in the T-tail configuration. AGARD-C is primarily used in the transonic wind tunnels and the database of published test results is somewhat smaller than the one for the AGARD-B model. In order to reduce cost and produce more versatile wind tunnel models, actual designs of AGARD-B and AGARD-C are sometimes realized as an AGARD-B configuration to which a body segment with the T-tail can be attached at the rear end to form the AGARD-C configuration. ==Gallery==
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File:221213-F-KN521-2008.jpg|An AGARD-B model installed on a sting is shown in the tank below Supersonic Wind Tunnel A in the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility File:221213-F-KN521-2083.jpg|An AGARD-B model installed on a sting is shown in the test section of Supersonic Wind Tunnel A in the von Kármán Gas Dynamics Facility File:221122-F-KN521-3032.jpg|The AGARD model in the C configuration is installed in the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel File:221206-F-KN521-2021.jpg|The AGARD model in the B configuration is installed in the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel ==See also==
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