Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Air Flow Turbulence Characteristics in the Wind Tunnel Contraction

Vladimira Michalcova; Sergej Kuznetsov; Jiri Brozovsky; Stanislav Pospíšil

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.617.275

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Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Air Flow Turbulence Characteristics in the Wind Tunnel Contraction

Abstract:

Flow characteristics contraction of rectangular cross-section are investigated numerically and experimentally so as to gain an additional insight into the contraction design. They observed velocity field and turbulent intensity in the area of contraction and downstream of it. Individual numerical models sofware Ansys Fluent are evaluated and compared with measurements in a wind tunnel.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 617)

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August 2014

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Vladimira Michalcova*, Sergej Kuznetsov, Jiri Brozovsky, Stanislav Pospíšil

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Aerodynamic, CFD, Wind Tunnel Contraction

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