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Form a column using the wire making sure it is the same size as the circumference of the fan. Connect Toggle switch battery connector and Motor wires together to form a circuit which shall make motor ON OFF.
This post is about the tinkering process were on to build and refine our wind tube.
How to build a wind tunnel. Gather around 20-30 tubes and arrange them in such a way that the outer ones are the largest and the inner ones the smaller ones. Tape this arrangement together and place into the three sides of the body of the tunnel. Once you squeezed all of the tubes inside the tunnel tape on the 4th side and bam you are done.
Aviation High School Wind Tunnel. Here is a wind tunnel design that was developed at NASA Glenn during the Centennial of Flight Celebration in 2003. This tunnel can be built for less than 100 and uses a computer fan motor to move air past small models.
Complete plans for the tunnel can be downloaded for free from the web page. Cut all pieces to size see attached drawings b. Connect pieces a small piece of Gorilla tape.
Walls slightly smaller pieces will sit inside the edge of the bottom and top pieces slightly larger pieces c. Run a line of hot glue along all of the inside edges of the section d. The wind tunnel you will build is not a closed-circuit wind tunnel because this would be very expensive and difficult to make without sophisticated equipment and materials.
Instead you will be making an open-circuit tunnel which is more like a tube that is open at both ends see Figure D. Connect Toggle switch battery connector and Motor wires together to form a circuit which shall make motor ON OFF. Make sure fan is rotating in such a way that it pulls air from neck of the bottle.
This can be tested by placing small paper inside bottle when fan is rotating. 1 Build a jig consisting of 32 14 dowels each 4-12 long and mounted in a board at 916 spacing. Clamp the jig to a workbench as shown above.
2 Cut a strip of craft paper 4 wide and 24 long. Weave this paper strip over and under the dowels of the jig as shown above. Pull the strip tight from both ends.
So after a year of designing wings I have decided to build a wind tunnel. This video is part 1 of 2 where I discuss why I have decided to build a wind tunne. The wind tunnel model can also be used for diagnostics to make a detailed determination of how the air moves around or through the aircraft.
At this Web site you can study wind tunnels at your own pace and to your own level of interest. Some of the topics included are. Taking into account all the recommended values for the secondary design parameters a guess value for the wind tunnel overall length with a contraction ratio N9 high quality flow is given by the formula.
In the case when N5 low quality flow the formula becomes. That point we call the center-of-grav- Figure 1. The inexpensive wind tunnel made from card- board boxes and a box fan.
Direction of Travel Nose Lift Force Nose Drag Force Body Tube Lift Force Body Tube Drag Force Fin Lift Force Fin Drag Force. A cool little project Ive been working on. This is probably the final version and it turned out nicely.
I forgot to say in the video that the next step up. Building a Wind Tube For our new Family Inventors Lab class we have built a fun toolwhich encourages the kids to tinker - see my last post for how kids play with a wind tube. This post is about the tinkering process were on to build and refine our wind tube.
Form a column using the wire making sure it is the same size as the circumference of the fan. Tape the ends together twist the wire together or do both. Using wire cutters make two 200mm cuts at the base of the tunnel to create a flap.
Use gaffer tape along the flap to protect the open wire edges. I made a wind tunnel. This is a closed loop wind tunnel subsonicWatch part 2 for the experiments.
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