This book is intended to be a valuable addition to students, engineers, scientists, industrialists, consultants and others providing greater insight into wind tunnel designs and their enormous research potential. It is a compilation of works from world experts on subsonic and supersonic wind tunnel designs, applicable to a diverse range of disciplines.
The book is organised in two sections.
The first section comprises of three chapters on various aspects of stationary and portable subsonic wind tunnel designs, followed by one chapter on supersonic wind tunnel and the final chapter discusses a method to address unsteadiness effects of fan blade rotation.
The second section contains four chapters regarding wind tunnel applications across a multitude of engineering fields including civil, mechanical, chemical and environmental engineering
Contents
Preface
Section 1 Wind Tunnel Design
1 Design Methodology for a Quick and Low-Cost Wind Tunnel
2 Design Features of a Low Turbulence Return Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel Having Interchangeable Test Sections
3 Portable Wind Tunnels for Field Testing of Soils and Natural Surfaces
4 Design and Development of a Gas Dynamics Facility and a Supersonic Wind Tunnel
5 A Method of Evaluating the Presence of Fan-Blade-Rotation Induced Unsteadiness in Wind Tunnel Experiments
Section 2 Diverse Engineering Applications
6 Wind Tunnel Tests on Horn-Shaped Membrane Roof Under the Turbulent Boundary Layer
7 Experimental Study of Internal Flow Noise Measurement by Use of a Suction Type Low Noise Wind Tunnel
8 Investigation of Drying Mechanism of Solids Using Wind Tunnel
9 Statistical Analysis of Wind Tunnel and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulent Flows