- Price$4.99
- CategoryEducation
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerA & G
- Bundle IDprohd
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueTurn your iPad/iPhone into a wind tunnel simulator !
Draw obstacles and watch the fluid flow around. Experiment with different sizes, shapes, aerodynamic profiles and see what happens !
Wind Tunnel is the extended version of the Wind Tunnel Free app. It adds visualization modes (turbulence, fluid direction), vga output, ability to load and save scenes, share scenes by email, rotate obstacles, adjust friction and viscosity and many more features.
Full feature list include :
• 4 actions : interact with the fluid, draw obstacles (free or straight lines), draw smoke sources, use eraser tool. • visualization modes : particles (streamlines, streaklines and random), colored smoke (predefined stripes, streamlines and custom), pressure field, speed norm visualization, curl (visualize turbulences), velocity field (visualize speed direction) combined with speed norm or curl. • Load/save scenes, share scenes by email, import obstacles shapes as png files. • Rotate/move obstacles, pause simulation with gestures. • Adjust physical parameters : fluid viscosity, obstacle friction, wind tunnel input speed. • Predefined scenes : airfoil, cars, rocks, Kármán vortex street…
The Wind Tunnel app lets you create beautiful wind tunnel scenes, play with the fluid and understand physics effects. Fluid motion is computed by solving Navier-Stokes equations, at high definition (over 50k grid cells on ipad) thanks to optimized code taking the most out of CPU performance.
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 2 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 5, 2012 | — | — | 16 | $5.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15I can only think on one thing that would make this app easier and that would be the ability to zoom. I have a ton of trouble making small changes.
I am a PhD student in physics and I have enjoyed showing this app to others. The results seem to agree with my intuition and they can be quite beautiful. I only wish I knew more about the algorithm and how accurately it is solving the Navier Stokes equations.
Needs iPhone 5 and iPod touch 5 optimization!
If you are giving flight instruction, this is an awesome tool; but you probably can't afford six dollars.
Demonstrates just how unusual but visually appealing iPhone apps can be. Mesmerizing. Potentially educational but no practical use. UI a bit unintuitive. Guilty pleasure to pass some time. One of the more costly apps (HD) but worth it. Anxious to see updates / improvements.
Plan on using this for flight instruction,would be great if you could select different parts of drawing to interact so you would be able to show the effects from moving different parts. Also would be great to have a top down view to be able to show multi engine aerodynamics.
this is the worst erodynamics game ever it says load well let you LOAD PICTURES off your camera to test jeez
beautiful, mesmerizing, a couple of adjectives that describe this app. The physics, the options, complement one of the best apps in App Store.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.