How Contractions Affect Wind Tunnels' Flow + Podcast #165

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How does a wind tunnel's contract affect the test section's flow quality, including the turbulence intensity, flow angularity, vorticity, flow uniformity, and the axial velocity gradient? Find out in this podcast! CHECK OUT our new OpenFoam CFD course that covers everything from literally installing it to running your own DES simulations, and everything in between: https://premieraerodynamics.com/Courses/ CHECK OUT our new Intermediate CFD course that covers what you need to go into industry and do high quality simulations: https://premieraerodynamics.com/Courses/ Want an easy way to make your experiments 2-4% more accurate? Check out The Atmosphere Hawk to make your aerodynamic experiments better: https://premieraerodynamics.com/Atmosphere-hawk Paper and thumbnail: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1176/5/052064/pdf, licensed under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #Aerodynamics #Aero #windtunnel #contractionratio #windtunnelTestSection #axialpressuregradient #turbulenceintensity