Once you’ve got yourself a wind tunnel, you might want to start thinking about some flow visualization, which gets really exciting.

Members of the SuperSonic/TranSonic/WindTunnel team work on their equipment at the Air Breathing Test Cell at UAH's Johnson Research Center. The project is under the ...

Engineers used a technique for studying airflow streamlines called smoke flow visualization. Smoke is put into the wind flow and can be seen during testing, allowing engineers to see how the wind ...

This tunnel achieves laminar flow using an array of soda straws to direct the flow. In fact, there are 150 straws in total. You can see a short clip of the wind tunnel in action below.

January 5, 2006 'Quiet' Mach 6 wind tunnel at Purdue helps shape future aircraft WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University engineers have developed a wind tunnel that is the only one of its kind in the ...

The multi-fan wind tunnel is controlled by a 64 inertia array (8x8) of small axial fans. These fans can be controlled individually or in groups using the the supplied software. Each individual fan can ...

“The capabilities of the UF wind tunnel enabled us to investigate the hurricane winds at two different scales,” said NIST’s lead Hurricane Maria investigator, Joseph Main, “so we could measure how the ...

Freightliner LLC has opened North America’s only full-scale wind tunnel built solely for testing heavy and medium-duty trucks. The 12,000-square-foot facility, located near the company’s ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 110, Section 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CAR: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS JOURNAL (2001), pp. 708-734 (27 pages) The classical theory of wind tunnel corrections calculated from potential ...