JPH0663902B2 - Streamline observation method and its wind tunnel - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a streamline observation method and an observation wind tunnel thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The smoke wire method is one of the easiest methods for streamline observation. In this method, a thin metal wire is placed in the observed air flow, oil is applied to the outer periphery of the wire, and it is electrically heated. When the temperature of the thin wire is raised by energization, white smoke is generated, and the white smoke is made to flow into the airflow to visualize the streamline. The white smoke is lighter than air, and its rising speed is about 5 cm / s, which determines the lower limit of the wind speed applied to the smoke wire method.
Normally, the upper limit is about 5 cm / s, but with special measures, 30
It is said that observation is possible up to about m / s.

The amount of smoke emitted depends on the supplied power, the diameter of the fine wire, the temperature, the type of oil (boiling point, density, surface tension), the thickness of the oil film, etc.
It is almost specified. The energization method includes a method of charging the capacitor and instantaneously discharging it, and a method of supplying direct current for a short time (about 1 second at the longest). A camera captures the moment when a streamline of smoke generated by short-time energization hits an object and bends. Therefore, it is a visualization rather than an observation. Oil is generally applied to the fine line with a brush each time, but as an automatic application method,
Oil is made to drip from the oil pipe to the upper end of the fine wire for smoking. In this automatic application, a uniform streamline cannot be obtained unless the large oil droplets flow down the fine wires one after another, and smoke is generated by instantaneous energization.

[0004]

The inventors of the present invention want to be able to observe gas streamlines even in elementary and junior high school laboratories.
I thought. A big wind tunnel cannot be used for it. As mentioned above, the cheap smoke wire method is difficult to use and its range of use is limited. Therefore, the present invention has aimed to further simplify the smoke wire method and further widen the range of its use.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the streamline observation method of the present invention, a liquid that emits smoke due to a temperature rise is attached to a thin wire that traverses a wind tunnel, and a smoke generated by electrically heating the thin wire causes flow. In the streamline observation method for visualizing a line, a thin tube provided with slits in the axial direction of the tube or a group of minute holes is used as the thin line, and the smoke generating liquid is flown into the thin tube. The feature is that the tube is electrically heated.

The second item of the streamline observing method of the present invention is to observe a streamline by visualizing the streamline by the smoke generated by attaching a liquid that emits smoke due to a temperature rise to the thin line that traverses the wind tunnel and heating the above-mentioned thin line by electric heating. In the method, a heating device for uniformly heating the sucked gas is provided on the inlet side of the wind tunnel, and the temperature of the inflowing gas is made equal to or close to the density of the smoke by the heating device. It is characterized by increasing until it reaches a value.

The small wind tunnel of the present invention is a streamline observation wind tunnel in which a liquid that emits smoke due to a temperature rise is attached to a thin wire that traverses the wind tunnel, and the streamline is visualized by the smoke generated by electrically heating the thin wire. It consists of a supply part, an observation room, and a suction part.The gas supply part is equipped with a heating device that heats the entire cross-section of the inflowing gas passage, and the observation room has a small diameter that crosses the vicinity of its inlet. A pipe, having a slit slit in the pipe axial direction, or a group of minute holes in the pipe wall, and equipped with a smoke-producing thin pipe that allows the above-mentioned smoke-producing liquid to flow into the pipe and be electrically heated. To do.

[0008]

According to the conventional smoke wire method, the diameter is 0.1 to 0.
When a thin wire such as a 2 mm nichrome wire is erected vertically and oil (liquid paraffin, etc.) is applied to it, excess oil flows down, and a coating film with a uniform thickness and good reproducibility is obtained, and therefore a uniform coating is obtained. It is excellent in obtaining smoke distribution. However, the coating must be reapplied each time. According to the first aspect of the method of the present invention, a thin tube having an inner diameter of about 0.1 to 0.5 mm is provided with slit slits or groups of micro holes in the tube axis direction, and the smoke generating solution is flown into the tube. Permeates evenly into slits or micropores, and evenly emits smoke when electrically heated. The inside of the small-diameter pipe is the liquid replenishment part, and the slits or micro holes become the smoke emitting part. The smoke emitting portion extends in the tube axis direction.

According to the second aspect of the method of the present invention, since the density of the inflowing gas is made substantially equal to the density of the smoke by the heating device, there is no movement due to the buoyancy of the smoke itself, and the streamline does not move properly, and To be visualized. In the wind tunnel of the present invention, since the heating device is provided in the gas supply section and the smoke-producing thin tube having the slit slits or the group of minute holes is provided near the entrance of the observation room, the smoke generated in the observation room rises by buoyancy as described above. The smoke-producing liquid always fills the small-diameter tube and its slits and holes without making the streamline uncertain.
If you make it intermittent, it emits intermittent smoke. Therefore streamlines, veins, traces,
Both the timeline and others can be observed.

[0010]

FIG. 1 shows a wind tunnel for streamline observation according to an embodiment of the present invention. No. 1 is a gas supply part, 2 is an observation room, and 3 is a suction part, and the appearance is the same as the conventional one. What is different is that the heating device 4 that heats the entire cross-section of the gas inflow passage of the gas supply unit 1 is provided, and that the conventional thin wire that crosses the vicinity of the entrance of the observation chamber 2 is replaced by the smoke-producing thin tube 5. is there.

In FIG. 1, only the upper end of the smoke-producing tube 5 penetrating the observation chamber 2 from the top to the bottom and the oil supply pipe 8 are drawn, but the details are shown in FIGS. A thin tube 5 that penetrates the observation room 2 vertically
2 has slit slits 6 in FIG. 2, and microhole groups 7 are provided in the tube axis direction in FIG. In both cases, the insulating tube 9 and the electrode 10 are attached to the upper and lower ends in order to electrically heat the thin tube 5.
As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the slits 6 and the hole groups 7 are oriented at right angles to the arrow indicating the direction of the air flow. The flow path 5a of the thin tube 5 serves as a smoke-producing liquid replenishing portion, and the slit 6 or the hole group 7 serves as a smoke-producing portion.

Now, the heating device 4 and the suction part wind turbine 3 shown in FIG.
a. Power is supplied to the respective outlets 11 and the smoke producing liquid is sent to the smoke producing thin pipe 5 by the oil supply pipe 8, and when the upper and lower electrodes 10 thereof are connected to direct current, the thin pipe 5 is heated, and the heat causes the slit 6 or the minute gap to be generated. The liquid retained in the hole group 7 emits smoke. The portion reduced by smoke is immediately replenished from the pipe passage, so smoke is emitted continuously or intermittently. Therefore, it can be viewed and visualized freely. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, when the slit 6 and the hole group 7 are opened at right angles to the flow of the air flow, smoke flows along with the flow, but it is also possible to change the position of the opening for an experiment. It should be noted that the reason why the direct current is used for heating and heating the thin tube 5 is because the control is easy, but in the case of the present invention, the direct current and the alternating current pulse current may be used depending on the purpose of observation. A description of the heating device 4 of the gas supply unit 1 is omitted because it is a known technique.

Although one embodiment has been described above, it goes without saying that the embodiment of the present invention can be variously changed and applied without changing the gist of the invention. For example, the cross section of the smoke tube is not circular but a streamlined or other modified cross section, it penetrates the observation chamber up and down, it is made horizontal or diagonal, it is rolled up to make a cylindrical streamline, vertical, horizontal It can be used for experiments that could not be considered at all in the prior art, such as smoking a plurality of smokes at the same time.

[0014]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention has revolutionized streamline visualization by the smoke wire method. In other words, it eliminates the need to apply oil to fine lines and the need for instantaneous shooting, which requires time and skill.
By sending the fuming liquid to the fuming tubules, the fumes can be freely smoked either continuously or intermittently. The fume tubule can be used vertically, horizontally, bent, or in combination with several tubes, enabling various experiments such as three-dimensional observation.

Further, according to the present invention, by soaking the gas supplied to the wind tunnel so that its density is almost equal to that of smoke,
We have obtained experimental results that can be clearly visualized without being disturbed by the rising of smoke even in a slow air flow with a flow velocity of 5 to 10 cm per second. The small wind tunnel of the present invention makes it possible for elementary school students to freely experiment with the naked eye to see the air flow by adopting the above-mentioned smoke-producing thin tube. It has the same performance as high-class equipment, which enables streamline observation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a wind tunnel for streamline observation of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged elevational view of the fuming tube of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an elevational view of another embodiment of the fuming tube.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the smoke-producing tube of FIG.

5 is a cross-sectional view of the smoke-producing tube of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 Heating device 5 Smoke thin tube 6 Slot slit 7 Micro hole group

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A thin wire that traverses a wind tunnel is attached with a liquid that emits smoke when heated, and the smoke generated by electrically heating the thin wire causes
In the streamline observation method for visualizing streamlines, a thin tube with slitting slits in the axial direction of the tube or a group of minute holes is used as the thin line, and the smoke generating liquid is flown into the thin tube. A streamline observation method characterized by electrically heating a tube. 2. A thin wire that crosses the wind tunnel is attached with a liquid that emits smoke when heated, and the smoke generated by electrically heating the thin wire causes:
In the streamline observation method for visualizing streamlines, a heating device for uniformly heating the sucked gas is provided at the inlet side of the wind tunnel, and the temperature of the inflowing gas is determined by this heating device, and the density of the gas is A streamline observation method characterized by increasing the value until it reaches a value equal to or close to the density. 3. A thin wire that traverses the wind tunnel is attached with a liquid that emits smoke when heated, and the smoke generated by electrically heating the thin wire causes:
In a streamline observation wind tunnel that visualizes streamlines, it consists of a gas supply unit, an observation chamber, and a suction unit.The gas supply unit is equipped with a heating device that heats the entire cross section of the inflowing gas passage. Is a small-diameter pipe that is installed so that it crosses the vicinity of its inlet, and has slits or micro holes in the pipe wall in the pipe axial direction, and the above-mentioned smoke generating liquid is flown into the pipe for energization. A wind tunnel that is equipped with a fuming tube that can be heated.