Wind Tunnels: Design / Construction, Types and Usage Limitations

✍ Scribed by Susan B. Chaplin (editor)

• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 165
• Series: Mechanical Engineering Theory and Applications
• Edition: UK ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The authors discuss the design and construction, types and usage limitations of wind tunnels. Topics include the use of wind tunnels to analyse wind loading on scaffold structures; the characteristics of the Architecture and Building Research Institute wind tunnel project; analysis of the wind environment and air quality in densely populated areas using wind tunnel experiments; and environmental wind tunnels designed and constructed to investigate a wide range of aerodynamic tasks.

✦ Table of Contents

WIND TUNNELS: DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION, TYPES AND USAGE LIMITATIONS
WIND TUNNELS: DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION, TYPES AND USAGE LIMITATIONS
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter 1: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ABRI WIND TUNNEL
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DESIGN ASPECTS OF THE ABRI WIND TUNNEL
3. FABRICATION AND INTEGRATION OF THE WIND TUNNEL
4. WIND-TUNNEL CALIBRATION
5. EXPERIMENT USING A CIRCULAR CYLINDER AT CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBERS
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
Chapter 2: ANALYSIS OF WIND ENVIRONMENT AND AIR QUALITY IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS USING WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. GEOMETRY OF BUILDING PATTERNS
3. NATURAL VENTILATION
4. WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS
5. TRACER GAS EXPERIMENT
6. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
7. ESTIMATION OF BLOCKING EFFECT IN WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 3: WIND TUNNEL INVESTIGATION INTO THE DRAG CHARACTERISTICS OF CATAMARAN FORM
ABSTRACT
NOMENCLATURE
1. INTRODUCTION
2. CATAMARAN RESISTANCE COMPONENTS
3. EXPERIMENT IN WIND TUNNEL
REFERENCES
Chapter 4: ENVIRONMENTAL WIND TUNNELS
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER
ABL MODELING
LABORATORY FACILITIES
FLOW INSTRUMENTATION
APPLICATION EXAMPLES
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 5: USE OF WIND-TUNNELS TO ANALYSE WIND LOADING ON SCAFFOLD STRUCTURES
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
TESTING FACILITIES REQUIRED FOR WIND PRESSURE STUDIES
WIND-TUNNEL TESTS ON NETTING
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX