Wind Tunnel Bulletin #01.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed

Contributor:

Ahmed, Haseeb, Editor, Contributor.

Dombois, Florian, Editor, Contributor.

Dörig, Corinne, Contributor.

König, Kasper, Editor, Contributor.

Steiner, Mirjam, Contributor.

Waltenspül, Sarine, Contributor.

Wendler, Reinhard, Contributor.

Zimmermann, Viola, Contributor.

Library Stack, distributor.

Series:

Wind Tunnel Bulletin ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Artists' writings.

Design.

Earth sciences.

Ecology.

Technology and the arts.

Art and technology.

Artists' Writing.

Geoscience.

Genre:

Periodicals

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

ZHdK, 2013.

[Place of publication not identified], ZHdK, 2013.

Summary:

"What is a wind tunnel? We assume it is Aeolus, our ancestor: when he caged all winds to leave only one, it produced wind­-tunnel­-like conditions at a large scale (pp. 2-3, 20). However we learn from the Hand­book of Wind Energy (pp. 4-5) that this condition is wholly artificial because wind is always highly varia­ble and omnidirectional-whirling on every scale. Looking at our own wind tunnel in Zürich we realized parallels to Göttingen and Ludwig Prandtl, who in­vented and built the first closed circuit tunnel there in 1908. It is still known today as the Göttingen­type (pp. 6-7). We have dubbed the housing of the wind tunnel the "Temple of Winds." Some early design drawings of Kaspar König show his idea of the mod­ular tunnel, which may be the first in the world of its kind (pp. 8-11). Wind tunnels come in all shapes and sizes with the common task of "straightening" the wind to study effects on scalar models (pp. 12-13). When printing this issue, we are still in the making of our tunnel (pp. 16-19). Finally we ask: Why a wind tun­nel (pp. 18-19)?"-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

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