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Aerodynamics

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Hi guys, new person here.

Just wanted to ask what you guys would recommend to use in a wind tunnel (low-speed, Low-cost). I was thinking about using streamers or even special colored smoke, but both of those have issues. I want to use them to track air turbulence around a structure, their eddies, and vortices.

My (original, but inspired) idea is to use a wind tunnel and light and flexible little structures to try to find what building design avoids the most vibration and the most air turbulence
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Re: Aerodynamics

Post by norman40 »

Hi LifeOnMars,

The following project suggests using streamers for visualizing air flow in a wind tunnel:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... el#summary

You might want to take a look at the some of the references in the background section of the project for some additional ideas.

I hope this helps. Please ask again if you have more questions.

A. Norman
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