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WindTunnel on Windows Pc

Developed By: Algorizk

License: Free

Rating: 4,3/5 - 247 votes

Last Updated: April 18, 2024

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version	1.03
Size	1 MB
Release Date	November 21, 15
Category	Education Apps
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Description from Developer: Turn your device into a wind tunnel simulator !   Draw obstacles and watch the fluid flow around. Experiment with different sizes, shapes, aerodynamic profiles and see what happens... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download WindTunnel and install on Windows PC. WindTunnel is free Education app, developed by Algorizk. Latest version of WindTunnel is 1.03, was released on 2015-11-21 (updated on 2024-04-18). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 5,000. Overall rating of WindTunnel is 4,3. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 247 users, 14 users had rated it 5*, 155 users had rated it 1*.

How to install WindTunnel on Windows?

Instruction on how to install WindTunnel on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install WindTunnel on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Install using BlueStacks
Install using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Install WindTunnel using BlueStacks

Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
Once installed, click "WindTunnel" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install WindTunnel on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "WindTunnel" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 1.03.

Download WindTunnel 1.03 on Windows PC – 1 MB

Turn your device into a wind tunnel simulator !   Draw obstacles and watch the fluid flow around. Experiment with different sizes, shapes, aerodynamic profiles and see what happens ! 
Visualize airflow with smoke, particles, or observe pressure field, velocity or turbulences. The simulation engine also computes an approximation of lift and drag.

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 and in real-time thanks to optimized code taking the most out of CPU and GPU performance. You can for example observe the mechanism of lift/drag over an airfoil, and how it stalls when the angle of attack increases (use two-finger rotate gesture to rotate the scene).

 Full feature list include :  
• choose between 4 actions (lower right button): interact with the fluid, draw obstacles, use eraser tool, or add rotors.
 • visualization modes : particles (streamlines, streak lines and random), colored smoke (predefined stripes, streamlines or streak lines), pressure field, speed norm visualization, curl (visualize turbulences), velocity field (visualize speed direction) combined with speed norm or curl.  
• Save/load your own designed scenes. 
• Rotate obstacles with two-finger rotate gesture.
• Change smoke color by tapping twice at the top of the wind tunnel (when smoke is on and in “interact” mode ) 
• Adjust physical parameters : fluid viscosity, obstacle friction, wind tunnel input speed.
• Switch between two simulation modes: wind tunnel or “free” mode where fluid wraps around screen.
• In “Params”, then “Perf.param”, adjust the grid size and smoke resolution (high-end devices are able to compute larger grid sizes, allowing you to draw thinner obstacles). 
• Predefined scenes : airfoil, cars, rocks, Kármán vortex street… 

Use the android “back” button to close any interface screen, or to undo the previous action (previous draw/erase).
Use the android “menu” button to hide/show the bottom button bar.

The simulation software will not run on some old devices (it requires NEON instructions), if in doubt, try first the free version, WindTunnel Free.

Contact us at support@windtunnelapp.com 

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Many thanks to the beta-test team: Sylvain, Nicolas, Anaïs, Olivier, Valentin, François.

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-- minor bug fixes

News:
-- Explore the wave nature of light in our new electromagnetic simulation app LightWave Studio!

-- Perform quantitative fluid analysis (Reynolds number, speed and viscosity units) in a refined simulation engine (second order advection, immersed boundary method) in our new Wind Tunnel CFD app developed in partnership with Numeca!