Wind Tunnel LaboratoryIn the Wind Tunnel Lab students explore several aspects of the fluid flow, including forces acting on the body exposed to the air flow. With flow visualization techniques, students can also observe the streamlines. They measure drag and lift forces for variously shaped bodies.
The laboratory contains a wind tunnel with 1 ft cross section and maximum velocity of 150 ft/s, a small calibration wind tunnel, and a small Schlieren system. Flow visualization in a wind tunnel is accomplished using a transversing laser sheet.
