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Wind Tunnel regulations; Question to our technical experts
Topic Started: Oct 30 2012, 10:01 PM (169 Views)
Steelstallions
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The limits in the wind tunnel as far as i can make out are: -

Full scale car only 4 hours in a 24 hour period,but you have to give up the 4 day straight line testing for it!
Otherwise scale of up to 60% must be used.

Why cannot the use 110% i.e. 10% bigger to get a better reading of the data? Or does scale always mean its got to be a lower scale?
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everythingoes
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Not sure about the definition of scale, but the size of the model car and the size of the wind tunnel are correlated. To test a larger version, they'll have to have a larger wind tunnel. Something about the air bouncing off the walls and stuff.
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