Wind Tunnel Calibration

Name: Animesh Phatowali

Roll no: 17AE30005
Group: 6
Experiment :7

Date of experiment: 15/3/19

Date of submission: 22/3/19
Aim:
To measure the velocity profile across the wind tunnel using a
pitot tube and manometer.

Apparatus:
1. Low speed wind tunnel
2. Manometer
3. Pitot tube

Theory:
Wind tunnels are large tubes through which air is pass through
and the behaviour of the air is notes when air is passes through various
specimens. Low speed wind tunnels have speed of air which have very
low Mach (M<0.4). In this experiment we are using open wind tunnel
in which two principles are used
1. Continuity equation
2. Bernoulli’s equation
We use the continuity equation to increase the velocity of air in the test
section and to calculate the velocity inside the test section we use
Bernoulli’s equation.

Observations:
Group 1/2:
𝑝𝑟 = 260, 𝑝∞ = 244

POSITION 𝑃𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙

V1 240 256
V2 240 258
V3 244 260
V4 242 258
V5 240 258

H1 240 258
H2 240 256
H3 244 260
H4 240 258
H5 240 258

Group 3/4:
𝑃𝑟 = 254, 𝑃∞ = 234
Position 𝑃𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙
V1 232 254
V2 228 254
V3 226 254
V4 226 254
V5 226 254

H1 228 252
H2 226 250
V3 226 254
H4 226 250
H5 226 250

Group 5/6:
𝑃𝑟 = 258, 𝑃∞ = 242

Position 𝑃𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙

V1 235 255
V2 236 256
V3 236 256
V4 235 256
V5 235 255

H1 236 255
H2 236 254
V3 236 256
H4 235 255
H5 236 256

Group 7/8:
𝑃𝑟 = 252, 𝑃∞ = 228

Position 𝑃𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙

V1 220 248
V2 220 248
V3 220 250
V4 220 248
V5 220 248

H1 224 250
H2 220 250
H3 220 250
H4 220 250
H5 220 248

Group 1/2:
Group 3/4:

Group 5/6:
Group 7/8:

Discussion:
1. Based on flow speed calculate the Mach number
𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑖𝑟 18.31
Ans. 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ = = = 0.05
𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 330

2. What is the use of honeycomb section of wind tunnel?

Ans. honeycomb, is a device used to straighten the air flow in a
wind tunnel. It is a passage of ducts, laid along the axis of main air
stream to minimize the lateral velocity components caused by
swirling motion in the air flow during entry.
3. Is the flow uniform in your experiment? What causes the non-
uniformity?
Ans. The error in the experiment is within the tolerance limit. So the
flow in the experiment is uniform.
There is some non-uniformity in the experiment due to human
errors, swirl turbulence etc.
Conclusion:
In the experiment we found that the variation in the velocity of air is
small in the air and so the flow is uniform and thus the wind tunnel
is calibrated.