Today I encountered my first experiment with a wind tunnel. Today’s lab was mostly used as an introduction to the equipment, and was interesting to see how different parts of the wind tunnel that were being used were actually developed, analyzed, and built by graduate students and alumni.
Shown above is a cross-sectional view of the wind tunnel I was using. Using a fan that is a little over a meter in diameter, it is capable of producing wind speeds of about 40 meters per second at maximum power. I’ll be using this bad boy, along with two other, smaller wind tunnels in the coming weeks to test out some airfoils and hopefully other interesting things.
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