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Design And Construction Of A Velocity Control System For A Low Turbulence, Vertical Wind Tunnel, Lawrence Vehslage Field
Design And Construction Of A Velocity Control System For A Low Turbulence, Vertical Wind Tunnel, Lawrence Vehslage Field
Masters Theses
"A low velocity (0 - 11m/sec), low turbulence vertical atmospheric wind tunnel has been designed and built by Inca Engineering Company of San Gabriel, California. This tunnel was assembled in the Cloud Physics Research Center at UMR. The tunnel is designed to aid in the study of phenomena associated with water drops suspended in a vertical air stream. This thesis describes the design and construction of the velocity control system for this tunnel. Constant speed, centrifugal fans are used to draw air through the tunnel. To allow these fans to operate at a constant efficiency, a valve system is used …