This week, we completed the manufacturing of two additional top plates and confirmed the fit in the wind tunnel test section! The first of these plates contained orifices angled at 60-degrees, while the second contained orifices angled at 30-degrees. With this important step, we have finished manufacturing our top plates with angles of 30, 45, and 60-degrees, and are ready to focus on testing the two new plates with the same experimental configuration as used for our 45-degreee orifices. Seen below are the 30-degree and 60-degree orifice top plates shortly after the conclusion of our manufacturing!

Additionally, the computational fluid dynamics sub-team spent time ironing out the initial conditions based upon our previous results and a collaborative discussion with an engineer at GE Aerospace. With this, we will ensure that our current simulations are updated to properly reflect the conditions of the wind tunnel test environment in the lab. By properly matching these conditions, we will be able to validate the accuracy of the numerical solution to the experimental data for matching orifice geometries before moving on to expand the simulations into geometries not tested by the experimental set-up!