My Homemade Wind Tunnel | High School Project |

This is a quick showcase and demonstration of my homemade wind tunnel for my final high school project.

If you are interested in learning more information, have any questions, or are starting your own wind tunnel, feel free to leave a comment or contact me at:

This tunnel is not perfect, and I don't claim that it is. It was a fun project that took about two weeks of 6-7 hours a day of work to complete.

Thanks for watching!

[cervidbrained]

i’m in my senior yr looking for aerospace final projects. sos. this is beautiful; i could only wish 😢 great job man

[skaterbradan]

Thank you so much for sharing. I’m making an air tunnel for a class I’m taking right now and this was able to help me figure out something I wasn’t able to before. Great work man keep it up!

[aquafox]

Highschool proyect, I've would do this for college, great work!

[johnhughes]

Great homemade tunnel! Very impressive!

[TeachTechZone]

Thanks man, a friend of mine and I are also building a windtunnel for measuring drag and lift on cars. It is also a high school project, but compared to you pretty primitive :P. Thanks for showing us the lift measuring device. That gave us some pretty good inspiration. Keep up the good work man!

[wrightmf]

Quite impressive you built this in only two weeks. What about adding advanced visualization techniques like pressure sensitive paint, IR thermography, and shadowgraph? Might not show much but create pretty pictures to impress people. Seems the tunnel overall fairly quiet, does it add much heat to the room after long duration of running?

[RomainFleuryWhatever]

Thanks for the explanation of some of the details 👏 and for the whole video 👍

[iandale]

I’m just jealous of the floor cushion 😂 4:11

[tasneemzoghol]

This is great! I was wondering if you can explain the circuitry part and how I can get the measurements of lift and drag the way you did. What did you use and how did you put it together. It would really be great help I'm also working on a project and need help as soon as possible. Thanks

[kapilchhabria]

Hey James, could you share some details on how you constructed the load arm? and is there an off the shelf sensor you used to input the data into the microcontroller?

[amultitaskingperson]

you could try putting a humidifier module at the end of the funnel along with some leds to be able to see the wind, otherwise great vid :)

[AndrewStewart]

I and another college student are currently building one for a school project. We are using the Bell-Mehta 5th degree polynomial as well for our inlet, but are having trouble finding materials to fit the curve we want. What materials did you use to ensure it was accurate?

[khaliltorku]

is it too much you ask of you for contact info so i could get a list of materials?? This is very interesting and me and my best friend just out of high school as well are trying to build our own

[sunid]

Hi, thank you very much for sharing this video. I'm currently working on an extended essay regarding angle of attack and lift. I was wondering if there were any sources/guidelines you followed to build this wind tunnel?

[emix]

You not getting the theoretical results might be due to the not matching Reynolds number. In any case that's a great project, thanks for sharing !

[amusingwheener]

This video is very useful however im just wondering what you used to let you see the lift and drag

[ReRy]

Hello! I am also in high school and my friend and I are planning one out. My question is how would you construct the contraction cone part with the curve going on two axes going narrower and curving in? Thank you for looking this over.

[jericoadesas]

Good day bro, is there any CAD files that you can give us for more information about your wind tunnel.

[BlackBird-nnyc]

he looks like a young version of dwayne johnson (when he still had hair) but with a slightly lighter skintone

[GiulioVonKerman]

Thanks- I wanted to build a wind tunnel for flow visualisation. Any tips for making a smaller one?