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Aerodynamics: Wind Tunnel Practice

This repo is the home of all the files involved in my Aerodynacmics class wind tunnel practice. As the abstrac says:

The data from the wind tunnel allows us to obtain some fundamental aerodynamic characteristic 
of the NACA 0018 airfoil. Throughout this report the pressure distribution over the airfoil 
surface will be analyzed at different angles of attack in order to get the relationship between
its lift coefficient and the angle of attack, after that we could obtain the lift produced by the
airfoil or a scaled real wing (thanks to the nondimensional analysis). Additionally, tunnel data 
are compared with the numerical ones provided by the popular software tool Xfoil, thus is possible
to carry out a comparison between the numerical model and the wind tunnel data.

In the repo you can find:

The lab report I've written about the wind tunnel session we had here at the University of León (Spain).
The source code (LaTeX) of the report. I've learned a lot of LaTeX while writing the report: please try to write something in LaTeX! If you don't want to install anything on your desktop use Overleaf, it's a great tool!
And, the Python code (you must love Python at this point, in case you don't: learn Python!) I've used Python to process the tunnel data and produce some nice and ready to publish plots using matplotlib, furthermore I've managed to connect Python with Xfoil (nice pice of software by the guru Mark Drela) and automate the entire workflow when I wanted to change some parameter (Reynolds number was the most recurrent).

Feel free to contact me and improve my work via pull request :)

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