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aerohead · 03-26-2011, 03:13 PM

I believe it was Alan Pope who wrote a book,Low Speed Windtunnel Design.You ought to check it out.\
There are some primary criteria which must be honored for a tunnel of any design and the short of the long of it, is that you'd never be able to achieve meaningful results in any tunnel you could do in a garage.
This stuff has been researched to death.You can't cheat in any way and expect results.
Models could end up costing you more than a full-scale build.Ford spent $60,000 for a 3/8th-scale Taurus.
You could do a small tunnel to rough out gross alterations but a homes 200-AMP service would not provide enough electric power for a fan capable of flow velocity and volumes you'd need for drag measurements.
Consider tuft testing.All you're looking for is attached flow and that's easy to ascertain.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 15,895 Thanks: 23,972 Thanked 7,223 Times in 4,650 Posts	wind tunnel I believe it was Alan Pope who wrote a book,Low Speed Windtunnel Design.You ought to check it out.\ There are some primary criteria which must be honored for a tunnel of any design and the short of the long of it, is that you'd never be able to achieve meaningful results in any tunnel you could do in a garage. This stuff has been researched to death.You can't cheat in any way and expect results. Models could end up costing you more than a full-scale build.Ford spent $60,000 for a 3/8th-scale Taurus. You could do a small tunnel to rough out gross alterations but a homes 200-AMP service would not provide enough electric power for a fan capable of flow velocity and volumes you'd need for drag measurements. Consider tuft testing.All you're looking for is attached flow and that's easy to ascertain.