Wanted to get a jump start to fluid mechanics for my next semester of ME. I wasn't expecting to find much in such a boring subject, but wow was I wrong. This is the most interested I have been in a subject before, and I'm finding myself always looking forward to clicking the next video.
I was trying to think of a way to test the aero devices for our senior project racing car. We've got a small wind tunnel in our college fluids lab, so I suggested to use this method and scale the aero devices into small 3-D protypes that can be fit into the wind tunnel. After getting my suggestion reviewed by one of the professors, it turned out that this method wouldn't be applicable as the required scaled velocity cannot be generated and the professor said there would be a snowing in the wind tunnel ..Guess we're just gonna provide the the CFD simulations to justify the credibility of the aero package we're fabricating
Yes, often a challenge with shrinking things is that you need to speed up the flow to compensate to achieve the same Re. This then pushes the boundaries of fan equipment and also remaining incompressible. Hope your CFD simulations are going well!
Could Froude have tried to scale using the two Reynolds and Drag coefficient matching instead to just scale one model? Or did he have to use Froude since it's his namesake? 😂
![Laminar closed-channel flows [Fluid Mechanics #8]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2A7sy4ql_kg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Laminar closed-channel flows [Fluid Mechanics #8]](/img/tr.png)
![Turbulence [Fluid Mechanics #10]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jXWtTt0SZI8/mqdefault.jpg)
This channel WILL blow up, it is a matter of time.
Haha we'll see, though I'm pretty happy with the activity right now!
@@prof.vanburen Keep up the good work.
Wanted to get a jump start to fluid mechanics for my next semester of ME. I wasn't expecting to find much in such a boring subject, but wow was I wrong. This is the most interested I have been in a subject before, and I'm finding myself always looking forward to clicking the next video.
Thanks so much!! Good luck with Fluid Mechanics, happy to take any questions if I can help.
I was trying to think of a way to test the aero devices for our senior project racing car. We've got a small wind tunnel in our college fluids lab, so I suggested to use this method and scale the aero devices into small 3-D protypes that can be fit into the wind tunnel. After getting my suggestion reviewed by one of the professors, it turned out that this method wouldn't be applicable as the required scaled velocity cannot be generated and the professor said there would be a snowing in the wind tunnel ..Guess we're just gonna provide the the CFD simulations to justify the credibility of the aero package we're fabricating
Yes, often a challenge with shrinking things is that you need to speed up the flow to compensate to achieve the same Re. This then pushes the boundaries of fan equipment and also remaining incompressible. Hope your CFD simulations are going well!
Could Froude have tried to scale using the two Reynolds and Drag coefficient matching instead to just scale one model? Or did he have to use Froude since it's his namesake? 😂