A Low Cost Numerical Simulation of a Supersonic Wind-tunnel Design

Low-cost wind tunnel for micro-arthropods

The aerial transport of tiny arthropods including wing-less species has been well documented. The initiation of aerial dispersal in most instances is not a passive phenomenon, but involves identifiable behaviors in response to specific stimuli. Here we describe a construction of wind tunnel suitable for close-up observation of micro-arthropods behavior under various conditions. The tunnel was m...

Design and Development of a Gas Dynamics Facility and a Supersonic Wind Tunnel

Design Construction and Performance Test of a Low Cost Subsonic Wind Tunnel

– Wind tunnel is a device, by artificially producing airflow relative to a stationary body that measures aerodynamic force and pressure distribution to simulate with actual conditions. Wind Tunnels offer a rapid, economical, and accurate means for aerodynamic research. The most important aspect of wind tunnels is their ability to accurate recreate the full complexity of full fluid flow. In the ...

Supersonic Blowdown Wind Tunnel Control Using LabVIEW

A computer-based, proportional-integral control system for supersonic blowdown wind tunnels was developed in a LabVIEW environment. The control algorithm is based on numerically integrating the differential equations used to model a supersonic blowdown wind tunnel in which the proportional and integral control terms were added and tuned in a simulation to determine their appropriate values. Val...

design, analysis and optimization of the ejector injection nozzle supersonic wind tunnel

in this article, an algorithm for designing of a supersonic wind tunnel injection nozzle ejector is presented and based on this algorithm, a new ejector is designed for a supersonic wind tunnel. the injection nozzle consists of a volute, a nozzle, and several vanes. designed injection nozzle is simulated numerically, and the results are compared with the present injection nozzle. the results sh...

Natural Ventilation in Buildings: Measurement in a Wind Tunnel and Numerical Simulation with Large Eddy Simulation

Yi Jiang, Donald Alexander, Huw Jenkins, Rob Arthur, Qingyan Chen*, Building Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB, Wales, UK School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1288 Mechanical Engineering Building, West...