30-09-2014, 11:34 AM
Abstracts: This final year project is intended to design and fabricate a wind tunnel equipped with test section for the experimental research at our institute. The aim is to make a wind tunnel of low subsonic speed and to test various test profiles which we have made ourselves. The team has to make the design of the wind tunnel as the main challenge in the project is to develop the wind tunnel and then the aerodynamic characteristics test are to be conducted for various test profiles. The main hurdle is to properly seal the entire structure of wind tunnel and also the number of hours the team has to put after it as we are new to such fabrication. A fan is kept at the end of the diffuser section of the wind tunnel which creates the suction of air at the inlet chamber of the wind tunnel. The test section is kept transparent so as we can measure the aerodynamic characteristics over the surface of the test profile. We will be obtaining various parameters from the experiment and then we will compare those obtained results with the results obtained by CFD analysis. The results obtained by CFD analysis are almost similar to the results obtained from the experiment. The contours of various parameters were plotted so as to analyse the flow over the test profile.