Aerodynamics Lab Equipment

Equipment Quantity
Wind Tunnel test section size around 300 x 300 mm with test section
flow speed of 70 m/s. 1

Wings of various airfoil sections (Symmetrical & cambered airfoils)

2
Angle of incidence changing mechanism
1
Multiple Manometer stands with 20 – 30 manometer tubes
1
U-Tube Manometer
1
Static Pressure Probes
1
Total Pressure Probest 1
Pitot-Static Tubes
1

Wooden Models of Three Dimensional bodies (eg. Cylinder etc.,) 1 each

Wind Tunnel balances (3 or 5 or 6 components)

1
Pressure Transducers with digital display
1
Hele-Shaw apparatus, Smoke Tunnel, Water flow channel 1
Supersonic Wind tunnel of test section size 100 x 100 mm with storage
tank capacity of 500ft2 at 20 bar 1

Wooden models of cone, wedge and blunt body configurations of

suitable size for flow visualization in a supersonic wind tunnel test 1 each
section
Schlieren Flow Visualization System
1
Structures Lab Equipment

Equipment Quantity
Verification of Maxwell's Reciprocal Theorem
1

Deflection of Cantilever Beam,

1

Buckling load of slender Eccentric Columns and Construction of

1
Southwell Plot.
Deflection of a beam under combined loading
1

Flexibility matrix for cantilever Beam 1

Unsymmetrical Bending of Z section Beam
1

Determination of Young’s Modulus using strain gauges and Poisson

1
Ratio Determination
Shear Center location for open channel sections
1

Shear Center location for closed D sections

1

Constant strength Beam

1

Beam with Combined Loading 1

Flexibility matrix for cantilever beam 1
Wagnaer beam - Tension Field Beam 1

Other Equipment

Parallel Flow heat Exchanger 1

Counter Flow Heat Exchanger 1