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Machine used for studying the effects of air moving around objects
A wind tunnel is "an apparatus for producing a controlled stream of air for conducting aerodynamic experiments". The experiment is conducted in the test
Wind_tunnel
Wind tunnel which moves air up in a vertical column
A vertical wind tunnel (VWT) is a wind tunnel that moves air up in a vertical column. Unlike standard wind tunnels, which have test sections that are
Vertical_wind_tunnel
Type of wind tunnel
A hypersonic wind tunnel is designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section, thus simulating the typical flow features of this flow
Hypersonic_wind_tunnel
This is an alphabetical list of wind tunnels. "A2 wind tunnel". Retrieved 26 January 2024. "ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel". Retrieved 26 January 2024. "Fly
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Wind tunnel with high speed air flow
A supersonic wind tunnel is a wind tunnel that produces supersonic speeds (1.2<M<5) The Mach number and flow are determined by the nozzle geometry. The
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American businessman (born 1952)
fixed-floor tunnels. Construction of the new wind tunnel began in 2007 and was completed by year-end. After six months of commissioning, the wind tunnel opened
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Space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation
Organization's Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) at the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex in Hyderabad, the TWT is India's third hypersonic wind tunnel. The TWT may function
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understand dual-mode scramjet combustion by analyzing and comparing wind tunnel and flight data. The work is being conducted with industrial, academic
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Military unit
Climatic Chambers (DCCs) are a pair of very large, highly specialized wind tunnels/environmental chambers located at the U.S. Army’s Soldier Systems Center
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Skyscraper in London, England
causes wind tunnel chaos for City Workers". Daily Express. Ward, Victoria (22 July 2015). "Walkie Talkie skyscraper blamed for creating wind tunnel on the
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Military wind tunnel facility
Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility, located at Arnold Engineering Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, holds three wind tunnels: the 16-foot
Propulsion Wind Tunnel Facility
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has established itself as a unique facility at a university level. The wind tunnels and equipment in the facility were mainly built by scouting for and upgrading
UTA Aerodynamics Research Center
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1993 supercomputer by Fujitsu and NAL
Numerical Wind Tunnel (数値風洞) was an early implementation of the vector parallel architecture developed in a joint project between National Aerospace Laboratory
Numerical_Wind_Tunnel
Standard wind tunnel models, also known as reference models, calibration models (French: maquettes d'étalonnage) or test check-standards are objects of
Standard_wind_tunnel_models
United States historic place
The Full-Scale Tunnel (abbreviated FST, also known as the 30-by 60-Foot Tunnel) was a wind tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center. It was a National
Full-Scale_Wind_Tunnel
NASA research facility in Virginia
aeronautics and the rest to space. LaRC researchers use more than 40 wind tunnels to study and improve aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and
Langley_Research_Center
Hypersonic demonstration aircraft
tested at a hypersonic wind tunnel operated by Israel Aerospace Industries. The isolated intake has been tested at a trisonic wind tunnel at India's National
Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle
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Type of wind tunnell
Transonic wind tunnels, between Mach 0.75 and Mach 1.2 (920 and 1,500 km/h; 570 and 910 mph; 260 and 410 m/s), are designed on similar principles as subsonic
Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel
Subsonic_and_transonic_wind_tunnel
Module. Wind tunnel testing occurred at the 4-foot Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, the High-Temperature Tunnel, and the Thermal Structures Tunnel at the Langley
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NAL Wind Tunnel Road, expanded as National Aerospace Laboratories Wind Tunnel Road, is a road in the Murugeshpalya locality of Bengaluru. It was called
NAL_Wind_Tunnel_Road
Rock that has been eroded by wind-driven sand or ice crystals
the effects of the wind and sand. NASA's Titan Wind Tunnel is used to test aeolian processes on various planets. The wind tunnel consists of multiple
Ventifact
United States wind tunnel
A Trisonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) is a wind tunnel so named because it is capable of testing in three speed regimes – subsonic, transonic, and supersonic. The
Trisonic_Wind_Tunnel
American aviation pioneers, inventors of the airplane
more emphasis on developing powerful engines. Using a small home-built wind tunnel, the Wrights also collected more accurate data than any before, enabling
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Experimental supersonic aircraft for NASA
aiming to begin flights in the 2020 timeframe. A 9%-scale model was to be wind tunnel tested from Mach 0.3 to Mach 1.6 between February and April 2017. The
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Predecessor to NASA (1915-1958)
wind tunnel design. Atmospheric 5-ft wind tunnel (1920) Variable Density Tunnel (1922) Propeller Research Tunnel (1927) High-speed 11-in wind tunnel (1928)
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics
Automotive wind tunnel in North Carolina, USA
Windshear Full Scale Rolling Road Wind Tunnel is an automotive wind tunnel in Concord, North Carolina. In January 2008 Wind Shear, a division of US machine
WindShear
Skydiving discipline
air sport in which participants use the airflow generated by vertical wind tunnels to maintain flight. The first recorded bodyflight was by aeronautical
Bodyflight
WWII era low-drag wing design
suggested it might be a wind tunnel fluke, something that gives good results only in the tunnel. This is a common problem since the tunnel's walls affect the
Davis_wing
Research facility in France
The MARHy Hypersonic low density Wind Tunnel, located at the ICARE Laboratory in Orléans, France, is a research facility used extensively for fundamental
MARHy_Wind_Tunnel
Educational in Southampton, United Kingdom
The R. J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel is a low-speed wind tunnel which is part of the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton
R_J_Mitchell_Wind_Tunnel
Transonic wind tunnel using nitrogen as test gas
transonic wind tunnel (ETW) is a high-Reynolds-number transonic wind tunnel using nitrogen as the test gas. It is one of the world's largest cryogenic wind tunnels
European Transonic Wind Tunnel
European_Transonic_Wind_Tunnel
Experimental aircraft
and hybrid electric technologies. By early 2019, following extensive wind tunnel testing at NASA Ames Research Center, an optimized truss and more sweep
Boeing_X-66
NASA research facility in Northern California
personnel and a $750 million annual budget. Ames was founded to conduct wind-tunnel research on the aerodynamics of propeller-driven aircraft; however, its
Ames_Research_Center
American aerospace engineer (1921–2005)
Pressure Tunnel. The 4 by 4 foot (1.2 by 1.2 m), 60,000 horsepower (45 MW) wind tunnel was used to study forces on a model by generating winds at almost
Mary_Jackson_(engineer)
Tower in Berlin
specialist wind tunnel in the Adlershof district of Berlin, Germany. The building, also known as the "Trudelwindkanal" ("spin wind tunnel"), was built
Trudelturm
Military hypersonic wind tunnel
AEDC Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 is a hypersonic wind tunnel owned by the United States Air Force and operated by National Aerospace Solutions The facility
Hypervelocity_Wind_Tunnel_9
Tool used to investigate the movement of water
submerged bodies in flowing water. It functions similar to a recirculating wind tunnel, but uses water as the working fluid, and related phenomena are investigated
Water_tunnel_(hydrodynamic)
United States historic place
The Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel, also known as Eight-Foot Transonic Tunnel, was a wind tunnel located in Building 641 of NASA's Langley Research Center
Eight-Foot_High_Speed_Tunnel
NASA facility
The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, located at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California, United States, is a research
Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (Mountain View, California)
Unitary_Plan_Wind_Tunnel_(Mountain_View,_California)
Italian motorcycle manufacturer
and industry innovations—including the first motorcycle centre stand, wind tunnel and eight-cylinder engine. Since 2004, Moto Guzzi has been an unico azionista
Moto_Guzzi
United States historic place
The Variable Density Tunnel (VDT) was the second wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Langley Research Center. Proposed
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Yugoslav mechanical engineer (1904–1989)
aircraft trainer. Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel Hypersonic wind tunnel AT-SB-E – the project of a wind tunnel with operating unit being 2.00x1.80 m2
Miroslav_Nenadović
Proposed four-rotor derivative of the V-22 Osprey
V-22. A one-fifth-scale wind tunnel model had undergone testing in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (a unique transonic wind tunnel) at NASA's Langley Research
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Headquarters of the McLaren Group
technology centre, as well as to house a new wind tunnel and simulator for McLaren Racing. The wind tunnel became operational by October 2023. The building
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The TreadPort Active Wind Tunnel (also known as the TPAWT) is a unique immersive virtual environment that integrates locomotion interfaces with sensory
TreadPort_Active_Wind_Tunnel
Branch of dynamics concerned with studying the motion of air
aerodynamics through mathematical analysis, empirical approximations, wind tunnel experimentation, and computer simulations has formed a rational basis
Aerodynamics
Disestablished United States naval laboratory at White Oak, Maryland
including the Mach 10 Wind Tunnel (1950), Mach 12 Wind Tunnel (1951), the Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (1957), and the Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel (1972) (Article about
Naval_Ordnance_Laboratory
Indian long range anti-ship hypersonic missile
Laboratory requested funding from the Indian Government to build a Hypersonic Wind Tunnel to aid in design and development of future hypersonic missiles. The facility
LRAShM_(missile)
Wind tunnel in Mooresville, North Carolina, U.S.
Wind Tunnel is a full-scale general-purpose open-return wind tunnel located in Mooresville, North Carolina. Created in 2006 by Gary Eaker, the tunnel
A2_Wind_Tunnel
Motorsports racing team
that the England-based team was forced to use a wind tunnel in California (albeit the same wind tunnel that Stewart had previously used) and that Cosworth
Jaguar_in_Formula_One
Danish multinational engineering and electronics company
and construction noise monitoring, and vehicle noise mapping. Since wind tunnel and test track measurements are often the only way to recreate real-world
Brüel_&_Kjær
Branch of fluid mechanics
further gas dynamics knowledge. Experimental gas dynamics undertakes wind tunnel model experiments and experiments in shock tubes and ballistic ranges
Compressible_flow
AGARD-B is a standard wind tunnel model (calibration model) that is used to verify, by comparison of test results with previously published data, the
AGARD-B_wind_tunnel_model
Canadian artillery engineer and entrepreneur (1928–1990)
used the wind tunnel as the basis for his September 15, 1949 Master's thesis, on the design and construction of advanced wind tunnels. The tunnel was to
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Company based in Latvia
based in Latvia, which owns and runs the first vertical wind tunnel in Eastern Europe. The wind tunnel is located near Sigulda, the most visited tourist area
Aerodium_Sigulda
Flight faster than Mach 5 below 90 km
Critique of JF-12 hypersonic wind tunnel, as well as the newer JF-22 detonation-driven ultra-high-speed and high-enthalpy shock tunnel (used for XingKong). "PLA
Hypersonic_flight
Wing shape
were first created and then had their characteristics measured in a wind tunnel. The 1-series airfoils are described by five digits in the following
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Formula One constructor
Andretti continued to build up the team and operations using Toyota's wind tunnel in Cologne, which McLaren had recently vacated. In November 2024, following
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Airplane
NASA performed wind tunnel tests on X-48B Ship 1 at a facility shared by Langley and Old Dominion University. After the wind tunnel testing, the vehicle
Boeing_X-48
First powered aircraft built by the Wright brothers
foot (2.6 m) long propellers were based on airfoil number 9 from their wind tunnel data, which provided the best "gliding angle" for different angles of
Wright_Flyer
Dam in Walchensee, Kochel
generate 120 megawatts. However, instead of a new wind tunnel and power plant, the Mach 4.4 wind tunnel used for V-2 rocket development was moved to the
Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station
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French civil engineer (1832–1923)
at the foot of the tower in 1905, building his first wind tunnel there in 1909. The wind tunnel was used to investigate the characteristics of the airfoil
Gustave_Eiffel
Wind tunnel as a museum in Bremen, Germany
Focke's wind tunnel is a fully operational wind tunnel in the former private laboratory of the aviation pioneer Henrich Focke (1890–1979), co-founder of
Focke's_wind_tunnel
Ratio of inertial to viscous forces acting on a liquid
different-sized flow situations, such as between an aircraft model in a wind tunnel and the full-size version. The predictions of the onset of turbulence
Reynolds_number
American test pilot
a wind tunnel and received authorization to build a tunnel, despite the cost estimate of $1 million. Having a wind tunnel (the Boeing Transonic Wind Tunnel)
Edmund_T._Allen
Study of the effects of wind on natural and built environments
atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnels, and computational fluid dynamics models. Wind engineering involves, among other topics: Wind impact on structures (buildings
Wind_engineering
Sports car manufactured by Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan
wind tunnel in the United Kingdom, was also used during the process. Over one and a half years of development, involving more than 2000 wind tunnel test
Nissan_GT-R
The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF), is an initiative in which 17 wind tunnels distributed across 12 UK universities (host institutions) are made
National_Wind_Tunnel_Facility
Natural or man-made structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb
Peter; Mehta, Rabi. "Honeycomb". Wind Tunnel Design. Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. "Components of a Wind Tunnel". Bright Hub. Archived from the
Honeycomb_structure
Company based in Riga, Latvia
and producer of vertical wind tunnels based in Riga, Latvia. Its core business is related to sales and rent of wind tunnels for entertainment and military
Aerodium
Soviet military transport aircraft
the similar An-124-100. The design was detailed in January 2019 before wind tunnel testing scheduled for August–September. It is intended to be produced
Antonov_An-124_Ruslan
Indian engineering, procurement and construction company
nuclear power industry. It was also responsible for building the Trisonic Wind Tunnel at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Tata_Projects
1980s German stealth aircraft
1985, wind tunnel testing of the design, including at transonic speeds commenced; two years later, a number of crewed 'flights' inside the wind tunnel were
MBB_Lampyridae
Executive transport aircraft
University of Kansas (using Wichita State University's wind tunnel and Boeing's transonic wind tunnel in Seattle) along with Professor Gerald "Jerry" Gregorek
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Industrial complex in Warren, Michigan
Engineers Hunt for Economy In Wind Tunnels; Detroit's Engineers Hunt for Economy in Wind Tunnels High Rents for Tunnels". The New York Times. July 8,
General Motors Technical Center
General_Motors_Technical_Center
Suspension bridge in Hong Kong
in Scotland and the Severn Bridge in England. The objectives of the wind tunnel studies were to demonstrate the safety of the structure under construction
Tsing_Ma_Bridge
Los Alamos National Lab". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01. "Numerical Wind Tunnel: National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan". TOP500.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01
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U.S. Air Force flight testing facility
facilities, including, but not limited to, aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, environmental chambers, arc heaters
Arnold Engineering Development Complex
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canopy for better visibility and a Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine. Wind tunnel tests were conducted at the Langley Research Center as Test 281. The
Boeing_Model_908-909
Test fixture in experimental fluid dynamics
is a test fixture on which models are mounted for testing, e.g. in a wind tunnel. A sting is usually a long shaft attaching to the downstream end of the
Sting_(fixture)
Motor vehicle
which was the speed limit in 1986) using a BMW M21 turbo-diesel engine. Wind tunnel testing was used to create a completely smooth fiberglass exterior top
Vixen_(RV)
Abrupt reduction in lift due to flow separation
in a graph of this kind is gathered using a model of the airfoil in a wind tunnel. Because aircraft models are normally used, rather than full-size machines
Stall_(fluid_dynamics)
Motor vehicle
wing works, we'll have to redesign our wind tunnel." The anecdote claims that BMW did redesign its wind tunnel afterwards. 500 examples were painted in
Mercedes-Benz_W201
Deflection of a spinning object moving through a fluid
velocity of the cylinder (in rad/s) and r is the radius of the cylinder. In wind tunnel studies, (rough surfaced) baseballs show the Magnus effect, but smooth
Magnus_effect
the 18th and 19th centuries, aided by the construction of the first wind tunnel in 1871. In his 1738 publication Hydrodynamica, Daniel Bernoulli described
History_of_aerodynamics
British motor racing company
simulator and heritage facility, while Building Three contains the new wind tunnel. Building One was completed in July 2023 followed by Building Two a year
AMR_GP
Streamlined body for generating lift
propellers, rotor blades, wind turbines and other applications of aeronautical engineering. A lift and drag curve obtained in wind tunnel testing is shown on
Airfoil
Formula One activities of Aston Martin
F1 wind tunnel". Motorsport Week. Retrieved 14 March 2025. Boxall-Legge, Jake (14 March 2025). "The innovations behind Aston Martin's new wind tunnel and
Aston_Martin_in_Formula_One
American thermal management company
for Ford Model T cars. The company built the world's first vehicular wind tunnel in Racine, Wisconsin in 1941. During WWII, Modine manufactured aftercoolers
Modine_Manufacturing
European beyond visual range air-to-air missile
full-scale model for aircraft fit checks as well as sub-scale models for wind tunnel tests scheduled for the autumn. The mid-mounted wings which had featured
Meteor_(missile)
parts, which will be described as follows: As for aerodynamic problems, wind tunnel test is a basic tool used in research. In 1994, researchers from German
Blade–vortex_interaction
US fighter prototype and research plane (1982–2009)
NASA's Langley Research Center and invested significant R&D funds for wind tunnel testing. Over several years the design was refined which led to the final
General_Dynamics_F-16XL
1978 discovery of structural flaw in New York City
stress parameters and the results of wind tunnel experiments. He concluded there was a problem. Worried that a high wind could cause the building to collapse
Citicorp Center engineering crisis
Citicorp_Center_engineering_crisis
Under-development supersonic airliner
delayed to 2025. At the time, it had undergone over 1,000 simulated wind tunnel tests. Boom initially targeted a Mach 2.2 cruise speed to fit with transoceanic
Boom_Overture
Informative representation of an entity
around buildings, vehicles, people, or hydraulic structures. Wind tunnel and water tunnel testing is often used for these design efforts. Instrumented
Model
Dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamic
immersed in the medium, or of a channel such as a nozzle, diffuser or wind tunnel channelling the medium. As the Mach number is defined as the ratio of
Mach_number
Canadian engineering company
impact on a 3D viewer. RWDI also has in-house model shops at each of its wind tunnel facilities that use stereolithography technology, integrated data acquisition
RWDI
European aviation noise pollution initiative
protection and acoustic attenuation technology. Tested in GKN Icing Wind Tunnel in 2011. Annulus Filler: The composite Annulus Filler is located between
Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking
Clean_Aviation_Joint_Undertaking
American mechanical and aerospace engineer
Environmental Wind Tunnel (M. V. Morkovin Wind Tunnel). Furthermore, he and his colleagues employed a vertically oriented wire in wind tunnels to implement
Hassan_Nagib
US reusable automated cargo lifting-body spaceplane
early 2014, Sierra Nevada completed its wind tunnel testing as part of its CCiCAP Milestone 8. The wind tunnel testing involved analyzing the flight dynamics
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