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Wind Tunnels
Comparison
of a selection of existing wind tunnels:
organization |
Johns Hopkins |
Colorado State |
U.West.
Ontario |
IIT |
KTH |
ASU |
Chalmers |
location |
Baltimore, MD |
Ft.Collins, CO |
London,
Ontario |
Chicago, IL |
Stockholm |
Tempe, AZ |
Gothenburg |
tunnel
name |
Corrsin
Tunnel
|
MWT |
BLWT2 |
NDF |
MTL |
UWT |
Nordic WT |
operational in |
1950s
|
1963
|
1984
|
1994
|
1991
|
1987
|
(proposed)
|
contraction ratio |
25:1
|
9:1
|
4:1
|
6:1
|
9:1
|
5.5:1
|
5.4:1
|
test section
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TS length
L [m] |
10.00
|
29.30
|
38.25
|
12.19
|
7.00
|
7.40
|
40.00
|
TS width
W [m] |
1.30
|
1.80
|
3.40
|
1.52
|
1.20
|
|
3.00
|
TS height
H [m] |
1.00
|
1.80
|
2.50
|
1.22
|
0.80
|
|
3.00
|
test section Umax [m/s] |
32
|
36
|
30
|
120
|
69
|
36
|
40
|
turb.level u'/U [%] |
0.1
|
>0.1
|
>0.1
|
<0.03
|
<0.02
|
0.01
|
<0.02
|
|
("typical tunnel")
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(long and large test section)
|
(low free-stream turbulence)
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A
selection of existing wind tunnels :
- Large
low-speed wind tunnel (x), Chalmers
University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- MTL
low-speed wind tunnel (x), Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Small
low-speed wind tunnel (x), Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- National Diagnostic Facility (x),
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
- Tony Perry's new wind tunnel (x),
University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Meteorological Wind Tunnel, Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, CO.
- Boundary
Layer Wind Tunnel 2 (x), University
of Western Ontario, London, ONT, Canada
- Stanley
Corrsin wind tunnel (x), Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
- Unsteady Wind Tunnel (x),
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
- Langley 14x22 ft Subsonic Tunnel (x),
NASA Langley Research Center, VA.
- Langley Low-Turbulence Pressure Tunnel (LTPT)
(x), NASA Langley Research Center,
VA.
- Langley 8 ft Transonic Pressure Tunnel (TPT)
(x), NASA Langley (no longer operational).
- National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) (x),
NASA Ames, CA.
- Volvo
Car Full Scale Wind Tunnel (x),
Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- RWDI
Wind Engineering (x), RWDI,
Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
- Meteorological Wind Tunnel, National
Power Environmental Flow Research Centre, University of Surrey, England.
(UniS
Fluids Research Centre)
(Facilities marked with an (x)
have been visited and examined by us.) |