Wind and Water Tunnels for Fluids/Thermal Lab

本项目的目标是为工科本科生提供流体/热实验室（初级阶段，1学分，机械工程学士学位必修课程）和机械工程实验室(高级阶段，3学分；机械工程学士学位的必修课)，这将允许他们研究流体力学和传热中的重要问题，这是他们目前无法研究的。风洞和水洞（带有基本的仪器系统、模型和校准集）将用于有关粘性和压力阻力、空气动力学和对流传热基础的“新”研究。在流体/热实验室增加这些“新”研究将大大提高机械工程本科学生的实验室经验（特别是因为大多数学生白天都是全职或兼职工作）。此外，获得风洞和水洞（以及相关的仪器系统）将允许并鼓励工科本科学生在流体力学、对流传热、空气动力学、流体动力学等一般领域进行“自主”调查、“独立学习”课程和“本科研究”。和 biofluiddynamics。重要的是，在大多数设想的“自我发起”调查中，学生只需要构建“模型和/或系统”，以便在风洞和/或水洞中进行测试；与目前的情况相比，这将是一个重大的改进，在目前的情况下，学生还需要构建相关的实验测试设备。

The objective of this project is to provide experimental apparatus (a wind tunnel and a water tunnel) for undergraduate engineering students in the Fluids/Thermal Laboratory (junior level; 1 credit hour, required course for a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering) and the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (senior level; 3 credit hours; required course for a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering) that would permit them to investigate important problems in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, which they cannot currently investigate. The wind and water tunnels (with basic instrumentation system, and model and calibration sets) would be used for "new" investigations concerning the foundations of viscous and pressure drags, aerodynamics, and convective heat transfer. The addition of these "new" investigations to the Fluids/Thermal Laboratory would substantially improve laboratory experiences of undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students (particularly since the majority work full- or part-time during the day). Furthermore, the acquisition of a wind tunnel and a water tunnel (with the associated instrumentation systems) would permit, and encourage, undergraduate engineering students to pursue "self initiated" investigations, "independent study" courses, and "undergraduate research" in general areas of fluid mechanics, convective heat transfer, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and biofluiddynamics. Importantly, in most of the envisioned "self initiated" investigations, the students would only need to construct "models and/or systems" to be tested in the wind tunnel and/or in the water tunnel; this would be a major improvement when compared to the current situation, where the students are also required to construct the associated experimental\test apparatus.