Diseño preliminar parte I, de un túnel de viento de circuito abierto (tipo Eiffel) para números de Reynolds de 3.3X106 m-1

Abstract

The purpose of this work is pre-design a subsonic open-circuit wind tunnel for the Technological University of Panama; forthe development of future researchs such as the design of small wind turbines and research on the dispersion of polluting emissions, among others.For them, it was necessary to carry out an extensive investigation of the existing models and their limitations of the various components that makeup a wind tunnel with this configuration, based on the existing guidelines to date and with the support of computational fluid dynamics. The use ofthe models and the support of these numerical methods allowed us to obtain a theoretically functional design that satisfies our initial requirements,propitious to develop a correlation for the design of the contraction, fostering new research paths in order to improve the performance of the fanaxial.