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Wind Tunnel Calculations and Answers

The document contains 5 questions about wind tunnel design and airflow calculations. It provides the questions, conditions given in each question, and the corresponding answers calculated from the given information. The questions cover topics like calculating airflow velocity from manometer readings, designing a supersonic wind tunnel for Mach 2 flow, calculating exit conditions from a supersonic nozzle, determining reservoir pressure for a given test section velocity, and calculating force on an object in a wind tunnel.

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Wind Tunnel Calculations and Answers

The document contains 5 questions about wind tunnel design and airflow calculations. It provides the questions, conditions given in each question, and the corresponding answers calculated from the given information. The questions cover topics like calculating airflow velocity from manometer readings, designing a supersonic wind tunnel for Mach 2 flow, calculating exit conditions from a supersonic nozzle, determining reservoir pressure for a given test section velocity, and calculating force on an object in a wind tunnel.

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Questions with Answers

1. In a low speed subsonic wind tunnel, one side of a mercury manometer is connected to the
settling chamber (reservoir) and the other side is connected to the test section. The contraction
1
ratio of the nozzle is 15. The reservoir pressure and temperature are 1.1 atm and T1=300 K,
respectively. When the tunnel is running, the height difference between the two columns of
𝑘𝑔
mercury is 10 cm. The density of liquid mercury is 1.36 × 104 𝑚3
. Calculate the airflow velocity
in the test section.

Answer: V2= 144 m/s

2. You are given the job of designing a supersonic wind tunnel that has Mach 2 flow at standard
sea level conditions in the test section. What reservoir pressure and temperature and what area
ratio are required to obtain these conditions?

Let subscript o be the reservoir pressure

Answers: To= 518.76 K

Po= 792,361.5 Pa

Area ratio of the throat and exit nozzle

Ae/At= 1.69

3. Consider the flow of air through a supersonic nozzle. The reservoir pressure and temperature
are 5 atm and 500 K, respectively. If the Mach number at the nozzle exit is 3, calculate the exit
pressure, temperature, and density.

Answers: Pe= 13792.2 Pa

Te= 178.57 K

ρ= 0.269 Kg per cubic meters

4. Consider a low speed subsonic wind tunnel designed with a reservoir cross section area 2 𝑚2
and a test section cross section area 0.5 𝑚2. The pressure in the test section is 1 atm. Assume
constant density equal to standard sea level density. a.) Calculate the pressure required in the
reservoir, necessary to achieve a flow velocity 40 m/s in the test section. b.) Calculate the mass
flow through the wind tunnel.

Answers: P1= 102,243.75 Pa,

Mass flow= 24.5 Kg/s

5. A 40mph wind tunnel is blowing against a signboard 8ft by 10ft in size. Atmosphere is normal
density. What is the force acting against the signboard?

Answer: 418.87 lbf

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