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Design Construction and Performance Test of a Short Length Subsonic Wind Tunnel

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dc.contributor.advisor Mashud, Prof. Dr. Mohammad
dc.contributor.author Arifuzzaman, Md.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-08-29T04:30:38Z
dc.date.available 2018-08-29T04:30:38Z
dc.date.copyright 2012
dc.date.issued 2012-09
dc.identifier.other ID 0000000
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12228/422
dc.description This thesis is submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Septmber 2012. en_US
dc.description Cataloged from PDF Version of Thesis.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56).
dc.description.abstract Wind engineering is a field that has been evolving over centuries. Wind engineering is based on using measurements of actual wind flows to predict the forces transferred to engineering structures and machines. A large portion of wind engineering today depends directly or indirectly on wind tunnels. Wind tunnel is a device, by artificially producing airflow relative to a stationary body that measures aerodynamic force and pressure distribution to simulate with actual conditions. Wind Tunnels offer a rapid, economical, and accurate means for aerodynamic research. The most important aspect of wind tunnels is their ability to accurate recreate the full complexity of full fluid flow. Aerodynamicists use wind tunnels to test models of proposed aircraft since the flow conditions can be carefully controlled in the tunnel which affect the forces on the aircraft. In the current project a short length subsonic wind tunnel is designed, constructed and its performance is tested. A 20 kW motor with 10 blades of diameter 1.20 m is used a fan to facilitate the air flow. The cross section of the wind tunnel is of square type with dimension 0.90 m × 0.90 m and the length of the section is 1.35 in. The overall length of the tunnel is about 7.35 m which can be erected in a laboratory room. After testing the performance of the tunnel it is found that the maximum wind velocity inside the wind tunnel is 26.62 m/s and the velocity profile along the height and width of the test section is almost linear in nature excluding the 11.11% allowance in four sides. The constructed wind tunnel has conformed to the design and can be used for different test in the field of aerodynamics. en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility Md. Arifuzzaman
dc.format.extent 56 pages
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh. en_US
dc.rights Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) thesis/dissertation/internship reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
dc.subject Wind Engineering en_US
dc.subject Wind Tunnel en_US
dc.subject Aerodynamics en_US
dc.title Design Construction and Performance Test of a Short Length Subsonic Wind Tunnel en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dc.description.degree Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
dc.contributor.department Department of Mechanical Engineering


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