Here are the pictures from the wind tunnel testing:
That big metal disk weighs a couple hundred pounds, and we had to carry it while stooped over in the 4.5 feet left in the wind tunnel. Very back-straining work.
That's the force balance which recorded all the data from the boat.
Click here to see a 3 MB movie of the smoke stream we used to visualize the flow.
Mom
Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:02:01 PM
I tried to watch the movie. I got a message that Quicktime was missing something. I had sound but no picture for the movie.
Paul
Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:12:26 PM
I'll try to find another encoding format.
I finally got around to uploading the pictures from Christmas. I am trying out a new format from an automatic picture website generator. Let me know what you think.
I spent the majority of the week working on the boat, since we had to put it in the wind tunnel Wednesday and Thursday. The tunnel is only 5 feet tall to start with, and our mounting mechanism took away about another 8 inches, so it was quite a strain on our backs setting everything up in there. But it seemd to be successful. I will post pictures and video soon.
