The aerodynamic behavior of a 48’ yacht rig 3D scale model was characterized by means of wind tunnel tests. The experimental program, performed in the Politecnico di Milano Twisted Flow Wind Tunnel, allowed the aerodynamic forces to be characterized using forced motion tests and the aeroelastic behavior of the sail plan to be studied. Preliminary results are presented with reference to the typi...

A method for accurately measuring the drag associated with a protuberance on an aircraft has been devised and implemented in a wind tunnel using a C-130 model. The C-130 aircraft has been heavily modified for various different configurations and the impact that these modifications have had on the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft has not been well documented. This paper describes a method...

The purpose of this paper is to analysis the basic aerodynamic theory of wings and the provide an introduction to wind tunnel testing. This is followed by the result from the wind tunnel testing of a NACA4412 and the analysis of the data. Lift increase at the angle of attack increase at certain point and at this point it become maximum. After that if the angle of attack is increased by further,...

CFD requires validation for complicated flow problems involving complex physics such as turbulence. Wind tunnels are still the most commonly used validation tools for CFD including physical modelling although some limited use of reliable DNS data base for simple geometries is recently becoming possible. One can observe the trend that a higher and higher demand on the accuracy of the wind tunnel...

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...

Development of a next generation airplane, which cruises near sonic speed, received considerable attention in 2002. To investigate aerodynamic characteristics and validity of CFD codes as a design tool in this new cruise condition, detailed wind tunnel test and CFD validation study was conducted in near sonic regime about the NEXST-1, unpowered supersonic experimental vehicle as a cooperative r...

Industry 4.0 calls for validated simulations for rapid customization and through-life designs. Wind tunnel experiments are widely used in validating flow-field simulations for aircraft design and manufacture. In this paper, we develop testing for simulating the NACA0015 model wings in various shapes and Angles of Attacks (AoA) through an anatomy wind tunnel. Particle traces are recorded during ...

LiveView3D is a software application that imports and displays a variety of wind tunnel derived data in an interactive virtual environment in real time. LiveView3D combines the use of streaming video fed into a three-dimensional virtual representation of the test configuration with networked communications to the test facility Data Acquisition System (DAS). This unified approach to real time da...

The development of Doppler global velocimetry is described. Emphasis is placed on the modifications necessary to advance this nonintrusive laser based measurement technique from a laboratory prototype to a viable wind tunnel flow diagnostics tool. Several example wind tunnel flow field investigations are described to illustrate the versatility of the technique. Flow conditions ranged from incom...

In the past, wind towers were applied as the main architectural part of building construction in the desert areas of Iran. These almost high structures were used as cooling load suppliers at residential buildings. In the present study, the effect of symmetric four-sided wind tower in flow induction to the bottom space has been analysed by using a wind tunnel and numerical simulations. In the nu...