Wind and Water Tunnels for Fluids/Thermal Lab

该项目的目的是提供实验性的 大学生用设备（风洞和水洞） 流体/热实验室的工程专业学生（初级 水平; 1个学分，学士学位必修课程机械 工程）和机械工程实验室（高级 水平; 3个学分; B.S.必修课程机械 这将使他们能够调查重要的 流体力学和传热学中的问题， 目前无法调查。风洞和水洞（ 基本仪表系统、模型和校准装置） 将用于有关 粘性和压力阻力的基础，空气动力学， 对流传热这些“新”的加入 对流体/热实验室的调查将 大幅度提高大学生实验室体验 机械工程专业学生（特别是自 大多数人在白天从事全职或兼职工作）。 此外，委员会认为， 获得风洞和水洞（ 相关仪器系统）将允许， 鼓励工科本科生追求“自我 开展”调查“、“独立学习”课程， 流体力学一般领域的“本科研究”， 对流传热，空气动力学，流体动力学， 生物流体动力学重要的是，在大多数设想的“自我”中， “调查”，学生只需要 建造“模型和/或系统”，在风中进行测试 隧道和/或水洞;这将是一个主要的 与目前的情况相比， 学生还需要构建相关的 实验\测试仪器

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.