Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery

Wind tunnels have often been used to validate the results of mathematical models applied to Turbomachinery blade crown studies. Therefore the main objective of this work is to develop a wind tunnel for testing turbomachinery. During the assembly of our tunnel were used some elements already designed and built since 2011. These elements were connected to the propulsion system and are supported on a structure that was designed by us in Solidworks® 2013. The Tunnel was subsequently tested and the results obtained were compared with the predictions of the computational model made with Fluent® 2016. The work developed culminated in a functional installation with great potential for the future development of gas turbines in the Laboratory.