Main page for this laboratory is here.

Other resources:

• Lift, Drag and Wind Tunnel Testing (instructor’s handout)
• Computing Lift and Drag Coefficients, some useful information on a subject where errors take place
• NASA Beginners Guide to Wind Tunnels
• Pressure Distribution on Buildings (an example of a wind tunnel testing program, perhaps you’d like to try a building model)
• Aerodynamic Characteristics of NACA 0012 Airfoil Section at Angles of Attack from 0 deg. to 180 deg.
• Standard Atmosphere Calculator (which is also able to calculate your Reynolds numbers, especially if you input the data properly)
• Climate Data for Design of Aviation and Other Equipment

Our main fluid mechanics laboratory page is here.  Other resources relating to this laboratory is here:

• Fluid Flow in Pipes, Losses and Flow Metering (instructor’s handout.)
• Compressible Flow Through Nozzles.  A look at flow with compressible fluids such as air.
• Getting the Reynolds Number Right.  Messing up this calculation is an error I see too often; this should help.
• Valve Loss Study.  Although this was with compressible fluids, the basic concepts are the same.

Note: I made something of a muddle in calling out the data points on the gate valve portion of the experiment. (Not exactly Vivian Stanshall on Tubular Bells!) But I’ve syncronised the Rotameter flow readings, the digital manometer’s readings, and showing which valve opening setting is being used at which point in the video, so the relationship between the three should be clear.

This is a fairly simple experiment for the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory course.  Some additional theory of the Pitot tube is given here.