1. Wind Tunnels Aeronautical and Non-aeronautical applications

2. Aerospace Uses of Wind Tunnels Airplane Development (Commercial/Military) –Component Testing –Complete airplane Experiments Take-off and Landing Configurations Ground effect Cruise Configuration Power effects on areodynamics –Data Required Force and moment coefficients Detailed pressure disdribution data for structural design

3. Aerospace Uses of Wind Tunnels Airplane Development (Commercial/Military) –Specialized testing requirements Spin Characteristics Aeroelastic experiments External store separation Jettison experiments Drag chute Space vehicles –Ground loads due to wind –Ascent loads –Re-entry loads

4. Non Aerospace Uses of Wind Tunnels Ground Vehicles –Automobiles –Race Cars –Trucks, motorcycles, etc –Trains Marine Vehicles –Sailboats –Underwater vehicles –Surface Ships

5. Non Aerospace Uses of Wind Tunnels Wind Engineering – the study of wind loading on buildings, structures,and environmental factors. –Loads on buildings –Influence of building wakes on other nearby buildings –Loads on Towers –Loads on Bridges

6. Non Aerospace Uses of Wind Tunnels Wind Engineering – the study of wind loading on buildings, structures,and environmental factors. –Pollution –Bio-terrorism –Accidental hazardous gas or liquid spills –Used for evauation planning

7. Store Separation Store separation deals with the safety issues of separating an internal or external store from an airplane. –Stores could be auxillary fuel tanks –Weapons –Other flight vehicles How would you verify that a safe separation is possible using a wind tunnel?

8. Boeing 747/Shuttle

9. Captive Trajectory Simulation

10. Drop Model Test

11. Other Wind Tunnel Uses Race Car Design Planetary Mobile Vehicles High Altitude Airships

12. Indy Race Car

13. Race Car

14. Planetary Exploration Project Suppose you were asked to develop a low cost device to move a senor package around the surface of the planet Mars. –Sensor package Seismic monitoring equipment Water detection equipment Weather sensing equipment, etc What kind of device might be suitable?

17. High Altitude Airship