It is desirable to test sportswear and sports equipment at exactly the same conditions experienced during use. Although outdoor tests are in many cases the most adequate, they are at the same time quite complex, demand special measurement technology and wearable equipment. Results of such tests are often hard to interpret due to large variations because of rapidly varying ambient conditions and...

A comprehensive wind-tunnel test program on both a 65o delta an 80o/65o double delta wing model has been recently completed. The program included static and dynamic force tests. A brief description of the various experiments is presented, as well as results that demonstrate the value of the previously proposed "hypersurface" representation of aerodynamic loads in the non-linear and unsteady reg...

A large eddy simulation (LES) program with the Smagorinsky subgrid-scale model has been used to study cross natural ventilation in buildings, which has experimental data available from on-site measurements and a wind tunnel. Since natural wind changes direction over time, it is hard to reproduce this effect in a conventional wind tunnel where the “wind” direction is fixed. There are discrepanci...

The aerodynamics characteristics of a blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft were obtained in Universiti Teknologi MARA low speed wind tunnel. The scaled-down of BWB model consisted of a canard as its horizontal stabilizer. There were four canards with different aspect ratio used in the experiments. Canard setting angles were varied from -20 to 20 . All tests were conducted at velocity of 35 m/s, wit...

The theory, methods, and applications of the videogrammetric model deformation (VMD) measurement technique used at NASA for wind tunnel testing are presented. The VMD technique, based on non-topographic photogrammetry, can determine static and dynamic aeroelastic deformation and attitude of a wind-tunnel model. Hardware of the system includes a video-rate CCD camera, a computer with an image ac...

Hydrodynamic coefficients in the motion equations of any underwater vehicle are inherent characteristics of the body geometry, the geometry and location of control surfaces and other appendages and separation of centers of gravity and buoyancy. This paper reports the prediction of values of straight-line hydrodynamic coefficients for a portable autonomous underwater vehicle (PAUV) by using empi...

Soccer balls are typically constructed from 32 pentagonal and hexagonal panels. Recently, however, newer balls named Cafusa, Teamgeist 2, and Jabulani were respectively produced from 32, 14, and 8 panels with shapes and designs dramatically different from those of conventional balls. The newest type of ball, named Brazuca, was produced from six panels and will be used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup...

A computer program has been developed to calculate inviscid transonic flow over a swept wing in a wind tunnel with specified normal flow at the walls. An approximately orthogonal computational grid which conforms to the wing and the tunnel walls was developed for application of the JamesonCaughey finite volume algorithm. the full potential equations in fully conservative form using line relaxat...

An open-jet wind tunnel operating within an anechoic chamber was developed for the purpose of the study of V/STOL noise mechanisms. An existing low-speed conventional hardwalled wind tunnel was modified to operate as an open-jet tunnel; an anechoic chamber was then constructed around the test section. The resulting aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of the tunnel are discussed. This work ...

Civil engineering structures, such as tall buildings and long span bridges, are typically designed based on the principles of material and structural mechanics. Finite element model (FEM) analysis and wind tunnel tests of scaled models are often carried out to assist structural design (see, e.g., Penman et al. 1999). However, loading conditions in the real world are always much more complicated...