OA-005
Modular Desktop Wind Tunnel
Designed and built a working wind tunnel from scratch over 80+ hours of CAD.
Designed, analyzed, and fabricated a modular desktop wind tunnel with nozzle, diffuser, and test-section geometry refined through 80+ hours of SolidWorks CAD.
Role
Designer and builder
Timeline
May 2025 – September 2025
Organization
Personal project
Designing the tunnel
I designed, analyzed, and fabricated a modular desktop wind tunnel. The nozzle, diffuser, and test-section geometry were refined over 80+ hours of SolidWorks CAD, informed by aerodynamic literature, so the intake, test section, and exhaust worked together as one flow path.
Building and testing
The modular design let me fabricate the tunnel as a small, reconfigurable test platform for lift experiments and flow visualization, a physical rig for trying the aerodynamics I'd been reading about.