Unsteady-flow wind tunnels typically employ control louvers installed in the wind-tunnel circuit to produce rapid changes in the test-section flow velocity. For these wind tunnels, an open-return circuit is advantageous because of the lower mass of air that must be accelerated by the louver forcing. However, in addition to inertial effects, the wind-tunnel behavior is also affected by the interaction of the pressure disturbances from the louvers and their reflection from the open boundary conditions of the wind tunnel, resulting in a windspeed response that is nonintuitively related to the louver motion. In this paper, an experimental investigation into the unsteady behavior of a model-scale, open-return wind tunnel is described. An incompressible method of characteristics model for the wind tunnel is shown to successfully predict the wind-tunnel dynamic behavior, and an approach to produce controlled windspeed histories that compensates for the wind-tunnel response is demonstrated.


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    Titel :

    Measurement and Modeling of Subscale Open-Return Unsteady Wind-Tunnel Behavior


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024-06-28


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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