TY - JOUR N2 - The paper presents numerical simulations related to the problem of how to obtain correct results in transonic wind tunnel during tests at high airfoil angles of attack. At this flow conditions, significant pressure losses appear in the test section, what leads to significant errors in measured data. Regarding the possible ways of tunnel reconstruction, we examined three different possibilities of changing the test section configurations: an increase of the test section height, displacement of the airfoil below the tunnel centreline and, finally, introduction of divergent test section walls. It was shown that neither the use of higher test section, nor the change of the airfoil location, gives any significant improvement in reference to the existing tunnel configuration. Only after divergent test section walls were introduced, the distributions of pressure coefficient became well consistent with their expected values. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/115394/PDF/AME_2009_132091.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/115394 PY - 2009 IS - No 2 EP - 130 DO - 10.24425/ame.2009.132091 KW - transonic wind tunnel KW - test section wall interferences KW - high airfoil angle of attack KW - numerical simulation A1 - Selerowicz, Witold PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Machine Building VL - vol. 56 DA - 2009 T1 - Prediction of transonic wind tunnel test section geometry – a numerical study SP - 113 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/115394 T2 - Archive of Mechanical Engineering ER -