Wind Tunnel Uses the Last Straw
If you watch the movies, there isn’t much to a wind tunnel. Just a fan and a tunnel, right? The truth is there’s a lot more to it than that, …read more Continue reading Wind Tunnel Uses the Last Straw
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Cleaner Laser Cutting With a 3D-Printed Nozzle
[Nervous System] does a lot of laser cutting, and [Jesse] shared a fascinating experimental improvement to their laser cutter that consists of a 3D-printed nozzle for cleaner cuts. You can see the results for yourself above, where the difference between the two cuts is striking.
[Jesse]’s modification doesn’t affect the …read more
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Desktop Wind Tunnel Brings Aerospace Engineering to the Home Gamer
Computer simulation is indispensable in validating design and used in every aspect of engineering from finite element analysis to traffic simulation to fluid dynamics. Simulations do an amazing job and at a fraction of the time and expense of building and testing a scale model. But those visceral ah-ha moments, …read more
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