An Application of the Von Karman-millikan Laminar Boundary-layer Theory and Comparison with Experiment
This is a 1935 NACA technical report, published by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for aeronautical engineers and researchers, applying the von Karman-Millikan laminar boundary-layer theory and checking it against wind-tunnel experiment. The pictures are plain technical photographs and graphs: a dark smoke-flow photograph of air passing an elliptic cylinder, with a fine-line grid chart plotting a dimensionless velocity curve that rises and levels off. A designer might take their stark monochrome contrast, flowing streak patterns, and graph-paper grid as raw material for abstract texture.
