Enhancing aerospace engineering students' learning with 3D printing wind-tunnel models

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 393-402

  Kroll, Ehud ^a   Artzi, Dror ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Air transport engineering; Education; Wind tunnel models; Wind tunnel testing

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; ACQUISITION COSTS; AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AIR TRANSPORT ENGINEERING; AIRCRAFT DESIGN; AIRCRAFT DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES; ENGINEERING STUDENT PROJECTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; METAL MODELS; METALLIC INSERTS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RAPID PROTOTYPE; SIMPLE METHOD; WIND TUNNEL MODELS; WIND TUNNEL TESTING;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRCRAFT MODELS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PRINTING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; STUDENTS; WIND TUNNELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 81255197661     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552541111156522     Document Type: Article

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