CFD and experimental data of closed-loop wind tunnel flow

John Kaiser Calautit; Ben Richard Hughes

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.02.033

CFD and experimental data of closed-loop wind tunnel flow

Data Brief. 2016 Feb 20:7:216-20. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.02.033. eCollection 2016 Jun.

Authors

John Kaiser Calautit¹, Ben Richard Hughes¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

Abstract

The data presented in this article were the basis for the study reported in the research articles entitled 'A validated design methodology for a closed loop subsonic wind tunnel' (Calautit et al., 2014) [1], which presented a systematic investigation into the design, simulation and analysis of flow parameters in a wind tunnel using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The authors evaluated the accuracy of replicating the flow characteristics for which the wind tunnel was designed using numerical simulation. Here, we detail the numerical and experimental set-up for the analysis of the closed-loop subsonic wind tunnel with an empty test section.

Keywords: Aerodynamics; Computational modelling; Flow quality; Wind engineering; Wind tunnel.