Aeronautical Wind Tunnels Europe and Asia

AERONAUTICAL WIND TUNNELS
EUROPE AND ASIA
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Europe and Asia
PREFACE
This catalog is a compilation of data on subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic wind tunnels used for aeronautical
testing in Europe and Asia. The countries represented in this catalog include Belgium, China, France, Germany, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea), Singapore, Sweden, and the United
Kingdom. The catalog profiles a total of 155 wind tunnels. A distribution chart and bar charts immediately following this preface
depict the number and types of tunnels operating in each country. The bulk of the catalog is made up of data sheets for each facility
describing its name; the name of the installation where it is located; technical parameters such as size, speed range, temperature range,
pressure, operational status, and Reynolds number; replacement cost and operation cost; testing capabilities; current programs;
planned improvements; contact information; and schematics, when available. The report is divided into five sections, one for each
speed (subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic) as well as a section for those tunnels for which the speed is unknown. A table
of contents heads each of these sections. In addition, cross-reference indexes with page numbers based on location, company name,
facility name, and schematics are included at the end of the catalog as quick look-up tools. A bibliography is also included. Sources
consulted include wind tunnel installation Web sites (in English and other languages), technical reports on wind tunnels published
by Sverdrup Technology, RAND, NASA and in various technical journals as well as information provided by installation
managers in response to direct inquiries. All web sites are current as of the publication date. If a Web site is no longer active, we
recommend searching on the wind tunnel name or owner organization name to obtain the current Web address.

Europe and Asia
AERONAUTICAL WIND TUNNELS DISTRIBUTION
Asia and Europe
Location Subsonic Transonic Supersonic Hypersonic Unknown

Belgium 4 0 2 2
England 13 2 3 0
France 4 1 4 5
Germany 9 3 0 2
Italy 2 1 0 1
Netherlands 4 1 5 0
Scotland 3 0 0 0
Sweden 1 1 0 0
Europe Subtotal 40 10 14 10 0
China 14 5 11 6 4
Indonesia 1 0 0 0
Japan 3 0 8 5 1
Malaysia 1 0 0 0
Singapore 0 1 0 0
South Korea 21 0 0 0
Asia Subtotal 40 6 19 11 5
Grand Total 80 16 33 21 5

Europe and Asia
Aeronautical Wind Tunnels-Europe
14
12 Subsonic
Transonic
10 Supersonic
Hypersonic
8
0
Belgium England France Germany Italy Netherlands Scotland Sweden

Europe and Asia
Aeronautical Wind Tunnels - Asia
25
20
15 Subsonic
Transonic
Supersonic
10 Hypersonic
0
China Indonesia Japan Malaysia Singapore South Korea

Europe and Asia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Subsonic Wind Tunnels
Country Installation Name Facility Name Page

Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium Adaptive Wall Low Speed Wind Tunnel T-3 1
Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium CWT-1 Cold Wind Tunnel 3
Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium L-1A Low Speed Wind Tunnel 5
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Low Speed Wind Tunnel 9
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 11
Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Large-Scale Vertical Wind Tunnel 13
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Low Speed Wind Tunnel 15
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, FL-5 Low Speed Wind Tunnel 17
Heilongjiang Province, China
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, FL-8 Low Speed Wind Tunnel 19
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, FL-9 Low Speed Continuous Pressurized 21
Heilongjiang Province, China Wind Tunnel
China Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Rotating Fluids and Vortex Dynamics Open Loop Low Speed Wind Tunnel 23
Lab, Taiwan, China
China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, Large-Scale Dual-Test Section Low Speed 25
Tiangsu Province, China Wind Tunnel
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi NF-3 Low Speed Airfoil Wind Tunnel 27
Province, China
China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Beijing Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 1 29
University, Beijing, China
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China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Beijing Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 2 31
China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Beijing Large-Scale Low Speed Wind Tunnel 33
China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Beijing Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel 35
England Airbus, New Filton House, Bristol, England. Airbus Filton Low Speed Wind Tunnel 37
Facility
England BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England Filton 12 x 10 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel 39
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 41
England.
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel 43
England.
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Open Jet Wind Tunnel 45
England.
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Open Return Low Speed Wind Tunnels 47
England. (Two)
England Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England No. 1 24-ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 49
England Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England No. 2 Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 51
England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England 0.5 x 0.5 m Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel 55
England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England 1.35 x 0.95 m Blow-down Wind Tunnel 57
England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England AVRO 9 x 7 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel 59
England QinetiQ, Farnborough, England 5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 61
France CEPr and ONERA, Center for Engine Testing (CEPr), Saclay, France CEPRA 19 Anechoic Wind Tunnel 63
France French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France S20 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 65
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac F1 Continuous Pressurized Subsonic Wind 67
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac, France Tunnel
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France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac F2 Continuous Atmospheric Subsonic Wind 69
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Low Noise Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LNB) 71
Mechanics (ISM), Braunschweig, Germany
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Low Speed Wind Tunnel (MUB) 73
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Small Wind Tunnel Braunschweig (KWB) 75
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Braunschweig, Germany Low Speed Continuous Atmospheric Wind 77
Tunnel (NWB)
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany High-Pressure Continuous Subsonic Wind 79
Tunnel (HDG)
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, Germany Cryogenic Continuous Wind Tunnel (KKK) 81
Germany Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Laminar Wind Tunnel (LWK) 83
Stuttgart, Germany
Germany Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Model Wind Tunnel 85
Stuttgart, Germany
Germany Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2.2 x 2.9 m Subsonic Wind Tunnel 87
Indonesia Aero-Gas Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory (LAGG), Agency for Indonesia Low Speed Wind Tunnel (ILST) 89
Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), National Center for
Research, Science and Technology (PUSPIPTEK), Serpong, Indonesia
Italy Galleria del Vento, Milan Polytechnic University (GVPM), Milan, Italy GVPM Subsonic Wind Tunnel 91
Italy Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy Icing Wind Tunnel (IWT) 93
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 2 x 2 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 95
Technology (IAT), Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel
Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 6.5 x 5.5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 97
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Japan Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center, Kawada Industries Inc., Tochigi, Kawada Wind Tunnel 99
Japan
Korea Agency for Defense and Development (ADD), Wind Tunnel Testing Low Speed Wind Tunnel 101
(South) Laboratory, Taejo, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Korea Chosun University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Gwangju, Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel 103
(South) Republic of Korea
Korea Chunbuk National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Jeonju, 0.6 m Wind Tunnel 105
Korea Chunbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel 107
(South)
Korea Chungnam National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Aero-Acoustic Wind Tunnel 109
(South) Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Korea Hanyang University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel 111
Korea Inha University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Incheon, Republic of Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel 113
(South) Korea
Korea Konkuk University, Department of Aerospace, Seoul, Korea Multi-Purpose Wind Tunnel 115
(South)
Korea Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Aeronautics Low Turbulence Open Circuit Wind Tunnel 117
(South) Department, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Korea Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea 4 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 119
(South)
Korea Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea KARI 1 m Wind Tunnel 121
(South)
Korea Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea KARI Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT) 123
(South)
Korea Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel KAFA Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT) 125
(South) Laboratory, Choongbuk, Republic of Korea
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Korea Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel 127
Korea Kyeongsang National University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Multi-Purpose Small Wind Tunnel 129
(South) Engineering, Jinjoo, Republic of Korea
Korea Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea Medium-Sized Subsonic Wind Tunnel 131
(South)
Korea Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel 133
(South)
Korea Pusan National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan, Subsonic Wind Tunnel 135
Korea Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel 137
(South)
Korea Seoul National University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel 139
Korea Ulsan University, Ulsan, Republic of Korea Multi-Purpose Wind/Water Tunnel 141
(South)
Malaysia Technological University of Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UTM Low Speed Wind Tunnel (UTM-LST) 143
Aeronautical Laboratory, Johor, Malaysia
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Delft, The Netherlands Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel 145
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Low Speed Laboratory, Delft, Subsonic Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel 147
The Netherlands
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord, The Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LLF) 149
Netherlands
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord,The Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 151
Netherlands
Scotland University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, 1.15 x 0.95 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 153
Scotland
Scotland University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, Argyll Wind Tunnel 155
Scotland
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Scotland University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, Handley-Page Wind Tunnel 157
Scotland
Sweden Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden LT1 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 159
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European and Asian Wind Tunnels
Subsonic Belgium
Installation Name Test Section Size Speed Range
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 100 x 117 x 800 mm (with flexible top and bottom 80 m/s
Saint Genese, Belgium walls)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 120°K
Facility Name Reynolds Number (million)
Adaptive Wall Low Speed Wind Tunnel T-3 0.2 to 1
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of September 2005
4 bar
Supplementary Technical Parameters
The T-3 was built as the pilot facility for the cryogenic T-2 transonic pressurized tunnel at VKI. It has 5-mm stainless steel walls and a 11,400-RPM fan speed.
Injection. Under ambient conditions with a 7.5-kW motor, yields Mach 0.23 (80m/s) in the test section. Originally built by Onera for transonic operation.
Data Acquisition
Testing Capabilities/Current Programs
Planned Improvements
User Fees
Contact Information
Olivier Chazot, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, B-1640 Rhode, Genese, Belgium.
Tel: (32) 02 359 96 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/virtual/facility/pdf/t3.pdf.
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Adaptive Wall Low-Speed Wind Tunnel T-3, Von Karman Institute, St. Genese, Belgium.
Subsonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 0.1 x 0.3 x 1.6 m 70 m/s (max)
Saint Genese, Belgium
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade as low as –40°C
CWT-1 Cold Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Low-speed, closed-circuit wind tunnel, 8-kW motor. Operates at sub-freezing temperatures. Built of wood and epoxy-fiberglass composite. Internally insulated with
a 5-cm layer of polystyrene foam, covered by smooth epoxy lining. The settling chamber, fitted with a honeycomb, is followed by a 12.4:1 contraction ratio. The
centrifugal fan is driven by a PC-controlled variable-speed 8-kW DC motor.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 96 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/facilities/pdf/cwt1.pdf.

CWT-1 Cold Wind Tunnel, Von Karman Institute, St. Genese, Belgium.
Subsonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 3 x 4.5 m (free jet test section) 2 to 60 m/s
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
L-1A Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of October 2005

Open-jet test section.Variable speed, 580-kW DC motor. Contraction ratio of 4:1. Typical turbulence level of 0.3%.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 96 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/facilities/pdf/l1a.pdf.

L-1A Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), St. Genese, Belgium.
Subsonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 0.28 m (width) x 1.3 m (length) 45 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
L-2A Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Low-speed, open-circuit wind tunnel having an air inlet, settling chamber circular cross-section with honeycomb and meshes, asymmetric 8:1 contraction ratio. A
two-directional traversing mechanism located in the test section. Axial fan, at the end of a 1:4 diffuser, driven by a 9.9-kW variable speed DC motor. Turbulence
level of 0.2 %.
Data Acquisition

Research projects and laboratory training in turbulent boundary layers, aircraft wakes, vortex-strake interactions, three-dimensional velocity measurements and, with
the addition of a smoke generator and of an air exhaust to outside, laser sheet flow visualizations.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 96 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/facilities/pdf/l2a.pdf.

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Subsonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 3 x 3 x 12 m 10 to 100 m/s
(CAAA), Beijing, China
AKA: Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics (BIA) or
701st Institute of the China Aerospace Science & Temperature Range
Technology Corporation (CASC) Date Built/Upgrade
Low Speed Wind Tunnel 6
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of November 2005

Stepless regulation of airflow speed.
Data Acquisition

Measurement of pressure and forces on vehicle models, control tests of rudder hinge movements and aircraft dynamics at high angles of attack, external objects
jettison (including ejection seats) and multi-body separation tests, folding wing deployment tests, simulation of jet interference and direct force, flutter and rotating
model tests, tests of ground wind loads and ground effects on aircraft and buildings, drag chute performance tests, simulation tests of high-speed vehicles and ships,
flow visualization
User Fees
Contact Information
Li Feng (Director), China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), 17 Yungang West Road, Fengtai District, Beijing 100074, China.
Tel: (86) 10 68740603, Fax: (86) 10 68374758, Email: caaa@bia701.com, Web site: http://www.bia701.com.

Subsonic China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development #1: 12 x 16 m; #2: 8 x 6 m #1: up to 0.07 Mach; #2: up to 0.30 Mach
Center (CARDC), Mianyang City, Sichuan
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade Atmospheric
Facility Name 1979
Reynolds Number (million)
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel #1: 1.7, #2: 6.9
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
Larger test section has a 2-D contraction ratio of 2.5:1. A 3-D contraction ratio of 4:1 between the test sections gives a total CR+10 for the smaller test section.
Powered by three fans, 7800 kW total.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Shang Shouhong (Dean), China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center Graduate School, PO Box 211, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province 621000, China.
Tel: (86) 816 246 3053, Fax: (86) 816 246 3051, Email: ssh@cardcgs.com, Web site: http://www.cardcgs.com/cardcgs/index.asp or
http://www.cardcgs.com/default2.asp.

Large Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang, China.
Subsonic China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development 55 m (height), 5 m (diameter) up to 50 m/s
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2005
Large-Scale Vertical Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

China’s first domestically designed and built vertical wind tunnel.
Data Acquisition

Research on aircraft speed loss and tailspin and aerodynamic stability of satellites and manned spacecraft during recovery operations.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 816 2463053, Fax: (86) 816 2463051, Email: ssh@cardcgs.com, Web site: http://www.cardcgs.com/cardcgs/index.asp,

Subsonic China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development 4x3m 100 m/s
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade Atmospheric
Facility Name mid to late 1970s
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
Closed circuit, continuous flow, atmospheric.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 816 246 3053, Fax: (86) 816 246 3051, Email: ssh@cardcgs.com, Web site: http://www.cardcgs.com/cardcgs/index.asp,

Subsonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of 1.5 m (diameter) 50 m/s (max)
Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, Heilongjiang
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1995
FL-5 Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Circular aperture, single return.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Yu Tao (Director), Chinese Aerodynamic Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), PO Box 88, 2 Yiman Street, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 15000
China.
Tel: (86) 451 82539364, Fax: (86) 451 82838327, Email: cph@caria.com.cn, Web site: http://www.caria.com.cn.

Subsonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of 3.5 x 2.5 m up to 73 m/s
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1963
FL-8 Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed circuit, flat, octagonal-shaped test section.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
China.

Subsonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of 4.5 x 3.5 m
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name Scheduled for completion in 2006
FL-9 Low Speed Continuous Pressurized Wind up to 8.5 (per meter)
Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
0.4 Mpa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Under construction
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
China.

Subsonic China
Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Rotating 400 x 400 mm
Fluids and Vortex Dynamics Lab, Taiwan, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Open Loop Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of August 2002
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Pei-Yuan Tzeng (Director), Rotating Fluids & Vortex Dynamics Lab (RFD), Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, No. 190, Sanyuan 1st St., Tahsi, Taoyuan,
Taiwan 33509, China.
Tel: (886) 33 800960, Fax: (886) 33 891519, Email: pytzeng@ccit.edu.tw, Web site: http://www.ccit.edu.tw/~RFVDLab/.

Subsonic China
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and #1: 5.1 x 4.25 m; #2: 3.0 x 2.5 m #1: 30 m/s; #2: 90 m/s
Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Large-Scale Dual-Test Section Low Speed Wind #1: 1.8, #2: 5.4
Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition

Can be used as a low-turbulence wind tunnel, three-dimensional smoke wind tunnel, water tunnel, and jet flow test device. Used as six-component force and pressure
measurements on airplane models. Also used to test wind loads on buildings, bridges, radar antennas, and television towers, and aerodynamic performance of
windmills.
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Xu Xiwu (Dean), College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing
210016, China.
Tel: (86) 25 8489 3212, Tel (Dean): (86) 25 84891585, Fax: (86) 25 8489 1512, Email: office@nuaa.edu.cn; Email (Dean): xwxu@nuaa.edu.cn, Web site:
http://www.nuaa.edu.cn.

Subsonic China
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, #1: 3 x 1.6 m (2-D); #2: 3.5 x 2.5 m (3-D); #3: 2.2 #1: 130 m/s (max); #2: 90 m/s; #3: 145 m/s (max)
NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China m (diameter) (propeller test section)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2002 or 2005
NF-3 Low Speed Airfoil Wind Tunnel #1: 7; #2: 5; #3: N/A
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
Asia’s largest low-speed, air-foil wind tunnel. China’s only low-speed wind tunnel with interchangeable test sections. The 2-D test section has a turbulence intensity
of less than 0.05%. The 3-D test section can perform full-scale tests. The propeller test section is China’s only propeller test section that can simulate the advance
ratio and the Mach number of the propeller tip simultaneously.
Data Acquisition
Distributed control system: PSI8400 pressure measurement system, three-dimensional laser velocimeter, hotwire anemometer, infrared imager to measure flow
transition, and automatic calibration of pressure and balance.
User Fees
Contact Information
Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Aeronautics, State Key Laboratory for Airfoil and Cascade Aerodynamics, No.127 West Youyi Road, Xi’an City,
Shaanxi Province, 710072, China.
Tel: (86) 29 8492222, Fax: (86) 29 8491000, Web site: http://www.nwpu.edu.cn.

Subsonic China
State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex 0.6 x 0.6 x 5 m 0.5 to 20 m/s
Systems (LTCS), Beijing University, Beijing,
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name Late 1980s
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 1
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Direct-action type with temperature and velocity profilers.
Data Acquisition

Basic research on turbulent boundary layers, flow separation, and vortex structures.
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor She Zhensu (Director), State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Beijing University, Beijing 100871, China.
Tel /Fax: (86) 10 62757944, Email: (Director) she@mech.pku.edu.cn, Email (Lab): ltcs@pku.edu.cn, Web site: http://ltcs.pku.cn/cn.

Subsonic China
State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex #1: 3.88 x 1.8 x 12 m; #2: 1.2 x 1 x 8 m 30 m/s (both test sections)
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name Late 1980s
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 2
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition

Basic and applied research on environmental aerodynamics, especially experimental studies on simulating atmospheric boundary layers.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel/Fax: (86) 10 62757944, Email (Director): she@mech.pku.edu.cn, Email (Lab): ltcs@pku.edu.cn, Web site: http://ltcs.pku.cn/cn.

Subsonic China
State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex 2.25 m (diameter), 3.65 m (long) 55 m/s (max)
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1958
Large-Scale Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Open circuit, circular test section.
Data Acquisition

When it was first built in 1958, it was China’s largest low-speed wind tunnel at the time and it was used for research and development of aircraft. In the 1970s it was
used for simulating atmospheric boundary layers. Recently it has been used to conduct basic experiments to develop a theory of scale laws for turbulent layer
gradations.
User Fees
Contact Information

Subsonic China
State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex 0.3 x 0.8 x 3.2 m 0.3 to 23 m/s
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1983
Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

A suckdown-type wooden structure, contraction ratio of 18.25:1, motor power of 7.5 kW. The two-dimensional closed-end test section with its large contraction
ratio, honeycombs, and fine-meshed, four-wall screens can reduce the turbulence degree to 0.085.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

Subsonic England
Airbus, New Filton House, Bristol, England. 12 x 10 x 0 ft
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1957/2004
Airbus Filton Low Speed Wind Tunnel Facility
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of February 2006.

Closed, single return circuit, 1.6 MW power, 6-component load cell balance, and 217.0 mph maximum wind speed.
Data Acquisition
SLA 7000 stereolithography system from 3D Systems Technology.

Aircraft, ground vehicles.
Replacement of the current ageing control and data acquisition system, and improvements to the control room/tunnel and associated building works (as of November
2004).
User Fees
Contact Information
Alison Kearin, Filton-Airbus, Airbus, New Filton House, Filton, Bristol, BS99 7AR, England.
Email: alison.kearin@airbus.com.

Subsonic England
BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, 12 x 10 x 25 ft (corner fillets) 0.25 Mach
Lancashire, England
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade Ambient to 45°C
Facility Name 1955
Filton 12 x 10 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel 1.4
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of February 2006.
Ambient
Solid construction, return circuit, fan-powered, Scanivalve or ZOC's for "steady" pressures, floor and rood balances, belt/suction/blowing ground effects, 280 psi and
3500 psi air supply systems, and four lbs/second air mass flow.
Data Acquisition
IBM PC based, electro mechanical for forces and moments, dynamic signal acquisition and analysis by HP LMS sytem.

Aeronautics, ground transportation, buildings.
User Fees
Contact Information
Paul Earnshaw, BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Preston, Lancashire PR4 1AX, United Kingdom.
Tel: (44) 0 1772 855572, Email: paul.h.earnshaw@baesystems.com, Web site: http://www.baesystems.com/programmes/airsystems/.

Filton 12 x 10 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel, BAE Systems Air Systems,

Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England
Subsonic England
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University 2.1 x 1.5 m octagonal section 60 m/s (max)
of Bristol, Bristol, England.
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as February 2006.

Return section, 5.5 m x 2.6 m with a maximum speed of 12 m/s; used for rotor studies.
Data Acquisition

Aerodynamics of aircraft, missiles, propellors, rotors and cars.
User Fees
Contact Information
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS 8 1 TR, England.
Tel: (44) 117 928 7704, Tel (Dept office): (44) 117 33 17025, Fax: (44) 117 927 2771, Email (General Inquiries): aero-office@bristol.ac.uk, Web site:
http://www.aer.bris.ac.uk/research/facilities.shtml.

Subsonic England
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University 0.8 x 0.6 m (octagonal section) 100 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Turbulence level 0.05%.
Data Acquisition

Fundamental Fluid mechancis and Aerodynamics.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (44) 117 928 7704, Tel (Dept. office): (44) 117 33 17025, Fax: (44) 117 927 2771, Email (General Inquiries): aero-office@bristol.ac.uk, Web site:

Subsonic England
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University 1.1 m (diameter) 40 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Open Jet Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition

Aerofoil charateristics, vibration and oscillation studies.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (44) 117 928 7704, Tel (Dept. office): (44) 117 33 17025, Fax: (44) 117 927 2771, Email (General Inquiries): aero-office@bristol.ac.uk, Web site:

Subsonic England
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University 0.6 x 0.6 m 35 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Open Return Low Speed Wind Tunnels (Two)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition

Teaching and student projects.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (44) 117 928 7704, Tel (Dept office): (44) 117 33 17025, Fax: (44) 117 927 2771, Email: aero-office@bristol.ac.uk, Web site:

Subsonic England
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), 24 ft (7.3 m) (diameter) up to 165 ft/s (50 m/s)
Berkshire, England
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1935/1992 (upgrade)
No. 1 24-ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Closed in 1996, may be re-opened for use.
Prospective operators being solicited as of January
Open-jet, single-return circuit, continuous flow. This facility has a mahogany six-bladed fan powered by a 2000-hp, 750-V DC motor. At full speed this facility can
run at 1.5 MVA.
Data Acquisition

Full-size aircraft testing in 1930s; pitch behavior beyond stall for rear-engined aircraft (BAC111, VC10, Trident) testing in 1960s. Current testing includes: testing
piston engines in their nacelles with propellers running, propeller noise research, nozzle noise testing, unmanned aircraft research, helicopter rotor testing, VTOL
research, redesign of Britannia engine intakes to prevent engine cut-outs, parachute testing. Also used for testing conifers behavior, motorway barriers, full-size radar
scanners and full-size cars
User Fees
Contact Information
Stephen Lord (Senior Development Manager), Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, Slough Estates plc, 234 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 4EE, England, UK.
Tel: (44) 01753 213472, Email: Stephen.Lord@sloughestates.co.uk, Web site: http://www.airsciences.org.uk/.

No. 1 24-ft Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England.
Subsonic England
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), 3.4 x 2.6 x 6.1 m 200 ft/s (60 m/s) (max w/o cooling); 300 ft/s (90 m/s) (max
Berkshire, England @ 1.25MVA)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
No. 2 Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST)
Cost
Refurbishment estimate available upon request. Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Inactive since 1998. Prospective operators being
solicited as of January 2006.
This facility has a three-component roof balance, six-component floor balance, sting support –10 +30° of incidence, with a maximum speed at 1.25 MVA.
Data Acquisition

V/STOL research, including Harrier predecessors. Aircraft model tests. Combat aircraft research. Comet 3 wing tank development. Vortex flap research. Aircraft
wake characteristics research. Swept wing stall behaviour research. Weapon systems research. Also used for oil cooler research for piston engines and testing of F1
racing cars, post office telegraph wires, bobsleighs, high-incidence canard delta tests, drag tests on Olympic skiers.
User Fees
Contact Information

No. 2 Low Speed Tunnel (LST), Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England.
Subsonic England
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), 1.2 x 0.9 x 3.4 m up to 280 ft/s (85 m/s)
Berkshire, England
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
No. 3 Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Inactive since mid-1990s. Prospective operators
being solicited as of January 2006.
Continuous flow, closed circuit, octagonal cross section. The mahogany six-bladed fan is powered by a 200-hp DC motor. Has a three-component roof balance,
traverse sting support, and contraction ratio of 32:1.
Data Acquisition

Preliminary development work prior to investment in larger facilities. Research on boundary layer development and transition. High-performance glider wing
sections. Development and calibration of aircraft instrumentation. Development of 2D testing techniques. Combat aircraft research. Vortex development research.
Anemometer calibration. Testing of sharp edge M and W wings.
User Fees
Because of its simplicity, safety and low operating costs this tunnel is also ideal for educational use.
Contact Information

No. 3 Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (LST), Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England.
Subsonic England
Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research 0.5 x 0.5 x 3.0 m up to 42 m/s
Laboratory, Manchester, England
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
0.5 x 0.5 m Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed return circuit, 20:1 contraction ratio, <0.03% turbulence level.
Data Acquisition

The tunnel is ideally suited for detailed flow investigations in such areas as laminar flow studies on aircraft wings.
User Fees
Contact Information
David Smith (Operations Director), Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Barton Airport Eccles, Manchester M 30 7RU, England, UK.
Tel/Fax: (44) 0161 787 8749, Email (Smith): david@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Email (General): Flowsci@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Web site:
http://www.flow-science.eng.man.ac.uk/etdetail.htm.

Subsonic England
Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research 1.35 x 0.95 m 40 m/s (open jet), 50 m/s (closed)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
1.35 x 0.95 m Blow-down Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of October 2005.

Blow down to open jet or closed working section with diffuser. Test section turbulence level < 0.6%, flow velocity variation <0.2%. Double inlet centrifugal fan, 1.3
m diameter with 50-kW drive via magnetic clutch, two1.0-q and three 2.0-q screens, 6:1 contraction ratio.
Data Acquisition
Traverse gear, scanivalves, pressure transducers, custom made 5 and 7-hole pitot probes can be used to measure flow angles and speeds, hot wire probes, digital
oscilloscopes, digital spectrum analyser for recording transient, unsteady or fluctuating flows or responsed.
User Fees
Contact Information
David Smith (Operations Director), Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Barton Airport Eccles, Manchester M 30 7 RU England.
Tel/Fax: (44) 0161 787 8749, Email (Director): david@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Email (General): Flowsci@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Web site:

Subsonic England
Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research 2.75 x 2.23 x 5.5 m up to 70 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1950s/1989 (acquired from British Aerospace,
AVRO 9 x 7 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel moved, refurbished)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed return, occupying 39 x 15 meters floor space. Turbulence level of below 0.1%, honeycomb, two 1.2-q screens, 5:1 contraction ratio.
Data Acquisition
Scanivalves, pressure transducers, custom made 5 and 7-hole pitot probes can be used to measure flow angles and speeds, thermocouples, hot wire probes, digital
oscilloscopes, digital spectrum analyser for recording transient, unsteady or fluctuating flows or responses, flow visualisation using tufts, fluorescent mini-tufts,
The facility is used extensively by industry, government agencies, and research establishments for obtaining aerodynamic performance data of scale-model flight and
surface vehicles
User Fees
Contact Information
David Smith (Operations Director), Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Barton Airport Eccles, Manchester M 30 7RU, England, UK.
Tel/Fax: (44) 0161 787 8749, Email (Smith): david@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Email (General): Flowsci@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Web site:

AVRO 9 x 7 ft Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England.
Subsonic England
QinetiQ, Farnborough, England 4.2 x 5.0 x 8 m 0.05 to 0.34 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade Ambient
Facility Name 1977/continuous rolling refurbishment program
5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 7.6
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of January 2006
3.0 bar
Closed, single return. Solid constuction with tapered fillets, 13.6 MW maximum power (A.C. and D.C). PSI (8400 and ESP) pressure system. Two underfloor and
various strain gauge balances. Variable height ground effects air supply. 100 bar air supply system. 8 kg/sec continuous 32 kg/sec for 6 minutes air mass flow.
Data Acquisition
DEC-Alpha/Vax, various

Modelling landing and take-off performance for civil and military aircraft. Also comes into its own with other tests applications on high-speed trains to rotor blades,
radar to a range of aerofoil structures.
User Fees
Contact Information
QinetiQ, QinetiQ Customer Contact Team, Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough Hampshire, GU 14 0LX, England, UK.
Tel: (44) 0 1252 392000, Fax: (44) 0 1252 393399, Web site: http://www.qinetiq.com.

5 meter Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, QinetiQ, Farnborough, England.
Subsonic France
CEPr and ONERA, Center for Engine Testing #1: 2 m (open jet); #2: 3 m (open jet) #1: 120 m/s; #2: 60 m/s
(CEPr), Saclay, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade #1: 877°C; #2: 227°C
CEPRA 19 Anechoic Wind Tunnel #1: 1.3; #2: 0.8
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Open circuit, continuous atmospheric, aero-acoustic windtunnel. 7-MWA 12 x 9 m inlet featuring a dust filter, acoustic baffles, anti-turbulence screens and a
honeycomb. Nozzle with 9-m diameter inlet, 2- or 3-m diameter outlet. Anechoic chamber roughly a quarter of a sphere, internal radius of 9.6 m. Flow collector fan
silencer centrifugal fan driven by 7-MW asynchronous electric motor.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Olivier Piccin (CEPRA19 Manager), Centre d'Essais des Propulseurs (CEPr), Saclay, France.
Tel: (33) 1 60 19 67 85, Fax: (33) 1 46 73 41 44, Email: Olivier.Piccin@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/wind-tunnels/cepra19.html,
http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/table.html.

CEPRA 19 Anechoic Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Saclay, France.
Subsonic France
French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis 90 x 70 x 80 cm 0.126 Mach
(ISL), Saint Louis, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
S20 Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Measurements taken include shadow or Schlieren photography, measurement of steady and transient pressures, force and moment measurements using wind tunnel
balance, laser Doppler velocimetry, particle image velocimetry, Doppler picture technique, and visualization by means of holographic filters.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), 5 rue du Général Cassagnou, 68300 Saint-Louis, France.
Mailing address: ISL, PO Box 70034, FR 68301 Saint Louis CEDEX.
Tel: (33) 3 89 69 50 00, (33) 3 89 69 50 02, Email: isl@isl.tm.fr, Web site: http://www.isl.tm.fr/en/generalite/intro_pres_e.html.

S20 Subsonic Wind Tunnel, French-German Institute of Saint Louis, St Louis, France.
Subsonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 4 model-carts: 4.5 x 3.5 m each 123 m/s (0.36 Mach)
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac Center, Le Fauga
Mauzac, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1974
F1 Continuous Pressurized Subsonic Wind Tunnel 8
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1 to 3.85 bar
Internal balances: 80 available balances; special design on request. Wall balance may be equipped with high-pressure air crossing for turbine supply (propane or
turbofan simulation). Turbine simulators for propellers. High-pressure air supply: mass flow up to 20 kg/s, pressure up to 120 bars, temperature up to 80°C. Rigs for
propeller calibration tests, TPS, air intake, probing device for flow surveys around models. Boundary layer control by blowing on the floor for ground effect tests.
Data Acquisition
Flow visualization by laser sheet, colored oils, mini-tufts with UV light, transition visualization by acenaphtene sublimation or infrared camera.

Propellar calibration tests.
User Fees
Contact Information
Jean-Claude Traineau (Director), Le Fauga-Mauzac Wind Tunnel Department, ONERA, Centre du Fauga-Mauzac, F-31410 NOE, France.
Tel: (33) 5 61 56 63 01, Fax: (33) 5 61 56 63 63, Email: Jean-Claude.Traineau@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/wind-tunnels/cepra19.html,
http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/table.html.

Subsonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 1.4 x 1.8 m up to 100 m/s
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac Center, Le Fauga
Mauzac, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade ± 1°C ???
Facility Name 1974
F2 Continuous Atmospheric Subsonic Wind 1.1
Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Philippe Loiret (Installation Head), Jean-Claude Raynal (Chief), Wind Tunnel Research Unit, ONERA, Centre du Fauga-Mauzac, F-31410 NOE, France.
Tel (Loiret): (33) 5 61 56 63 73, Tel (Raynal): (33) 5 61 56 63 71, Email (Loiret): Philippe.Loiret @ onera.fr, Web site:
http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/wind-tunnels/cepra19.html or http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/table.html.

F2 Continuous Atmospheric Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fauga-Mauzac, France.
Subsonic Germany
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at 600 x 400 x 1500 mm 19 m/s
Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics
(ISM), Braunschweig, Germany
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Low Noise Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LNB) low
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The LNB is a continuous, atmospheric, Eiffel-type wind tunnel with a closed test section. It is driven by a 3-kW motor in suction mode. It has a rectangular cross
section with a burger-type axial area. The contraction ratio is 16. Air passes through a 30-mm thick fleece mat followed by a honeycomb with a length of 133 mm.
Data Acquisition
Stereo-scopic-PIV, Multiplane-PIV and Time-Resolved PIV techniques.

Research in low Reynolds number and unsteady aerodynamics, detailed flow investigations of laminar separation bubbles and interaction of coherent flow structures
in turbulent boundary layers. Experiments on flapping wings at low Reynolds numbers also planned.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Christian Käehler, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut für Strömungsmechanik, Bienroder Weg, 338106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Tel: (49) 531 391 2971, Fax: (49) 531 391 5952, Email: ckäehler@tu-braunschweig.de, Web site: http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ism/institut/wkanlagen/hlb.

Low Noise, Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LNB), Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig (ISM),
Braunschweig, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at #1: 1300 x 1300 x 3000 mm; #2: 800 x 800 x 3000 60 m/s (max)
Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics mm
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 10°C (max)
Low Speed Wind Tunnel (MUB) 0.69
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The MUB is a Göettinger-design closed-circuit atmospheric wind tunnel with three exchangeable measuring sections. The new heat exchanger in the calming
chamber permits stable flow temperatures. It has flexible and optical measuring sections.
Data Acquisition
8400 DTC pressure measuring system. 3-component PIV system, 340Hz of indigo infrared camera system research underway to develop infrared heat transfer
measurements, two six-component balances, KME 4 external balance.
Research on airfoils, aircraft componets, and ground vehicles.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Thorsten Möller, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut für Strömungsmechanik (ISM), Bienroder Weg, 338106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Tel: (49) 531 391 2971, Fax: (49) 531 391 5952, Email: t.möeller@tu-braunschweig.de, Web site: http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ism/institut/wkanlagen/hlb.

Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (MUB), Carolo-Wilhelmina Technic University, University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid
Mechanics (ISM), Braunschweig, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at 4997 x 2450 x 940 mm 65 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Small Wind Tunnel Braunschweig (KWB)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The small wind tunnel is continous with an open test section. It is driven by a 22-kW motor. The nozzle can be replaced with a burger-nozzle of bi-superelliptic
shape. Has 505-mm open-jet diameter
Data Acquisition

Educational. Used to investigate new measurement techniques and to study feasibility of new research concepts such as flow control.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Christian Käehler, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut für Strömungsmechanik (ISM), Bienroder Weg, 338106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Tel: (49) 531 391 2971, Fax: (49) 531 391 5952, Email: c.käehler@tu-braunschweig.de, Web site: http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ism/institut/wkanlagen/hlb.

Small Continuous Atmospheric Wind Tunnel (KWB), Carolo-Wilhelmina Technic University, University at Braunschweig,
Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Braunschweig, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), #1: 3.25 x 2.8 m (closed or slotted wall); #2: 3.25 x #1: 90 m/s; #2: 75 m/s
Braunschweig, Germany 2.8 m (open jet)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Low Speed Continuous Atmospheric Wind Tunnel #1: 1.8; #2: 1.5
(NWB) Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The NWB is an atmospheric, low-speed, closed-circuit tunnel. The settling chamber is equipped with a honeycomb-type flow straightener and three fine mesh
screens. 1.4-MV power supply maximum.
Data Acquisition
Up to 240 measurement channels, PSI system 8400 DTC for pressure. Measurement up to 1024 pressure points.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr.-Ing. A. Bergmann, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Lilienthalplatz 7, 38108 Braunschweig, Germany.
Tel: (49) 531 295 2450, Fax: (49) 531 295 2829, Email: dnw-nwb@dnw.aero, Web site: http://www.dnw.aero.

Low-Speed Continuous Atmospheric Wind Tunnel (NWB), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Braunschweig, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, 0.6 x 0.6 m 35 m/s (max)
Germany
Temperature Range
High-Pressure Continuous Subsonic Wind Tunnel 12
(HDG) Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

By pressurizing the air in the wind tunnel up to 100 bar, very high Reynolds numbers are obtained in incompressible flow with velocities up to 35 m/s. Models can be
installed in different test sections. Test section exchange is provided by a special locking system without depressurizing the tunnel circuit. For long-term
measurements the tunnel shell can be cooled by dripping water. Unique general arrangement.
Data Acquisition
Unix operating system.

The HDG is used for investigations that require the simulation of the correct Reynolds number. Systematic steady and unsteady fluid-dynamic research into Reynolds
effect on solid generic models such as spheres, cylinders, airfoils, etc. models as well as on high-speed trains, buildings, bridges, and other engineering structures.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr.-Ing. K.-W. Bock, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
Tel: (49) 551 709 2820, Fax (49) 551 709 2888, Email: dnw-guk@dnw.aero, Web site: http://www.dnw.aero/.

High-Pressure Continuous Subsonic Wind Tunnel (HDG), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels, Göttingen, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, 2.4 x 2.4 m 0 to 0.38 Mach
Germany
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 116 to 300°K
Facility Name ?/1980-1985
Cryogenic Continuous Wind Tunnel (KKK) 9.5
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Ambient
The originally conventionally low-speed wind tunnel was changed to a high Reynolds-number cryogenic wind tunnel from 1980 to 1985 and entered service in July
1987. A continuously working, low-speed tunnel with a closed tunnel circuit. To achieve higher Reynolds numbers, the gas temperature in the tunnel circuit can be
varied between 100 and 300°K by injecting liquid nitrogen. The Reynolds number can then be increased by a factor of 5.5, while the drive power remains constant.
Data Acquisition

Due to the variation of the gas temperature, the influence of Mach number and Reynolds number on the aerodynamic coefficients of model measurements can be
investigated separately.
User Fees
Contact Information
R. Rebstock, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), KKK, Linder Höhe, 51147 Köln, Germany.
Tel: (49) 2203 601 3700, Fax: (49) 2203 695961, E-Mail: dnw-kkk@dnw.aero, Web site: http://www.dnw.aero/.

Continuous Cryogenic Wind Tunnel (KKK), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics 0.73 x 2.73 x 3.15 m 90 m/s
(IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1962
Laminar Wind Tunnel (LWK) 5 (max)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed aerodynamic circuit. Long blow down. Closed measuring section and open air feedback (Eiffel-type), motor speed of 220 kW. A high contraction ratio of
100:1 as well as integrated filter mats u < 0.2%.
Data Acquisition
Scanivalves, PSI Vielfachdruckmesssytsten, MKS Baratron, boundary layer probe, infrared camera. Dynamometer infrared camera TH7102. Visualization flows can
be done by coating methods, tufts or smoke probes, and laser light art.
Measurement of two-dimensional models.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. W. Pepper, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 21, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Tel/Fax: (49) 0711 685 3470, Email: wuerz@iag.uni stuttgart.de, Web site: http://www.iag.uni-stuttgart.de/laminarwindkanal/&prev=/sear.

Laminar Wind Tunnel (LWK), Institute for Aerodynamics & Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart,
Germany.

Subsonic Germany
Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics 0.373 x 0.6 x 0.8 m 30 m/s
(IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Model Wind Tunnel 0.03 to 0.4
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The model wind tunnel has a long-blowdown, closed measuring section, open air feedback (Eiffel type). It has a 6-blade blower with 4-kW three-phase motor.
Maximum stagnation pressure amounts to 75mmWC. Turbulence/flow rate of 2 x 10-4 to 7.5 x 10-4.
Data Acquisition
PC supported system with 12-bit AD Wandler.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. W. Pepper, Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 21, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Tel/Fax: (49) 711 685 3470, Email: wuerz@iag.uni-stuttgart.de, Web site: http://www.iag.uni-stuttgart.de/.

Model Wind Tunnel, Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Subsonic Germany
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 2.2 x 2.9 x 4.3 m 68 m/s
Germany
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1937
2.2 x 2.9 m Subsonic Wind Tunnel 1.14
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Ambient
Closed, single return wind tunnel. 300-kW power, single stage axial fan, Amb/Amb stagnation pressure, PSI system, no ground effects, 50 bar air supply system, 500
kg air mass flow.
Data Acquisition
Micro Vax
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Cameron Tropea, Strömungslehre und Aerodynamik, Fachbereich 16, Building/Room L101/473, Petersenstrasse 30, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Tel: (49) 6151 162854, Fax: (49) 6151 16 4754, Email: ctropea@sla.tu-darmstadt.de, Web site: http://tu-darmstadt.de.

2.2 x 2.9 m Subsonic Wind Tunnel, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
Subsonic Indonesia
Aero-Gas Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory 4 x 3 x 10 m 110 m/s
(LAGG), Agency for Assessment and Application
of Technology (BPPT), National Center for
Research, Science and Technology (PUSPIPTEK), Temperature Range
Serpong, Indonesia Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1987-1988
Indonesia Low Speed Wind Tunnel (ILST) 6.5
Cost
US$18 million (estimated construction cost) Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Confirmed active as of 2004

Developed under bilateral technological cooperation between the governments of Republic Indonesia (BPPT) and the Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory
(NLR). Aeronautical and industrial aerodynamics circuit of a closed return type with atmospheric and closed walled test sections. Contraction ratio of 1:9. Equipped
with a ground plane to enable aircraft landing and take off simulation, and with 200 m³ pressurized dry air of 60 bars to allow testing on air turbine powered engine
Data Acquisition
256 channels

CN235 aircraft development testing (civil and military), N250 aircraft power test using rotating shaft balance, slipstream model research tests, industrial model testing
(ships, wing-in-ground effect craft, long-span bridges), N250 flutter test using aeroelastic model, N2130 aircraft testing, UAV testing, aircraft landing and take off
testing, air turbine powered engine simulators.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Surjatin Wiriadidjaja, UPT-LAGG, BPP Teknologi, Puspiptek, Serpong, Tangerang 15310, Indonesia.
Tel: (62) 21 756 0205, Fax: (62) 21 756 0901, Email: lagg@idola.net.id, Web site: http://lagg.or.id/ilst.htm.

Indonesia Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (ILST), National Center for Research, Science and Technology (PUSPIPTEK),
Serpong, Indonesia
Subsonic Italy
Galleria del Vento, Milan Polytechnic University #1: 4 x 3.84 m (aeronautics test section); #2: 3.84 x #1: 55 m/s; #2: 14 m/s
(GVPM), Milan, Italy 13.84 x 36 m (civil test section)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2001
GVPM Subsonic Wind Tunnel 0.1 to 1.1
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Ambient
This facility is fitted with a 12-blade fan, 14 motors, arranged in two rows of seven, separated by 2 x 2 m ducts. Overall power of 1.4 MW and a maximum speed of
55 m/s (200 km/h). Closed circuit, single vertical return.
Data Acquisition
National instruments cards.
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Giuseppe Gibertini, Department of Aerospace Engineering, GVPM, Campus Bovisa Sud, Via La Masa 34, 20156 Milan, Italy.
Tel: (39) 02 2399 8389, Fax: (39) 02 2399 8334, Email: giuseppe.gibertini@polimi.it, Web site: http://www.windtunnel.polimi.it/english/impianto/impianto.htm.

GVPM Subsonic Wind Tunnel, Milan Polytechnic University, Milan, Italy.
Subsonic Italy
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, 0.25 to 0.7 Mach
Italy
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade -40°C to -35°C
Icing Wind Tunnel (IWT)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
up to 1.45 bar
Closed circuit wind tunnel. The IWT is equipped with three different test sections and an open jet configuration for a total of four different configurations.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Italian Aerospace Research Center (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali: CIRA), Via Maiorise, 81043 Capua, Italy.
Tel: (39) 0823 623001, Email: info@cira.it, Web site: http://www.cira.it/.

Icing Wind Tunnel (IWT), Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy.
Subsonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 2x2x4m 3 to 60 m/s (continuous use), 67 m/s (max)
Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT),
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel
Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
2 x 2 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of December 2005

Continuous circulation type. Air blower: 250 kW. Gust wind tunnel: uniform air flow 3 – 30 m/sec. Gust generator: movable cascade pitch angle 0 ~ ± 0.15 radians;
oscillations 0 – 20 Hz; gusts 0 ~ ± 4.5 m/sec for 0.05 seconds; waveforms: sine wave, triangular wave, square wave, and random wave. Robot model mount: 6
degrees of freedom; load capacity 1470 newtons; position accuracy ± 0.5 mm.
Data Acquisition

Studies of wind loads on aircraft and spacecraft.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Masashi Shigemi (Director), WINTEC, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Aerospace Technology, Aerospace Research Center, 7-44-1 Jindaiji
Higashi-machi, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8522, Japan.
Tel: (81) 3 422 40 3000, Fax: (81) 3 422 40 3281, Email: wintec@chofu.jaxa.jp, Email (Director): shigemi.masashi@jaxa.jp, Web site:
http://www.iat.jaxa.jp/res/wttc/b02.html.

Subsonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 6.5 x 5.5 m 1 to 70 m/s
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1965
6.5 x 5.5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Continuous circulation type. Test section octagonal shaped with four 1-meter corners. Air blower: 3,000 kW, fan blade variable-angle type and rotation speed control
type at the same time. Test section: strut-mounted pyramid six-component balance, sting-mounted internal balance, operating at 4 free angles. Ground effect test
device: moving belt type, 50 m/sec.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Masashi Shigemi (Director), WINTEC, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Aerospace Technology, Aerospace Research Center, 7-44-1 Jindaiji
Higashi-machi, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8522, Japan.
Tel: (81) 3 422 40 3000, Fax: (81) 3 422 40 3281, Email (WINTEC): wintec@chofu.jaxa.jp, Email (Director): shigemi.masashi@jaxa.jp, Web site:

6.5 x 5.5 m Low-Speed Wind Tunnel, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Aerospace Technology, Aerospace
Research Center, Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan.
Subsonic Japan
Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center, Kawada #1: 2.0 x 2.5 x 15.0 m; #2: 2.5 x 2.5 x 5.0 m #1: 50 m/s; #2: 45 m/s
Industries Inc., Tochigi, Japan
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1992
Kawada Wind Tunnel #1: 3.4; #2: 3.1
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
#1: 156.25 kg/m² ; #2: 126.56 kg/m²
Single return, open circuit. Powered by a 220-kW fan. Two external (one three-component and one six-component) balances. No air supply system, no air mass
flow, and no ground effects.
Data Acquisition
HP 3852A, spring balance vibration data
User Fees
Contact Information
Katsuya Edamoto, Aircraft and Mechanical Systems Division, 122-1 Hagadai, Hagamachi, Tochigi, 321-3325, Japan.
Tel: (81) 28 677 1177, Tel (Edamoto): (81) 28 677 5707, Fax: (81) 28 677 4520, Email: mech@kawada.co.jp, Web site: http://www.kawada.co.jp/aircraft/.

KAWADA Wind Tunnel, Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center Kawada Industries, Tochigi, Japan.
Subsonic Korea (South)

Agency for Defense and Development (ADD), 3 x 2.25 x 8.75 m 10 to 120 m/s
Wind Tunnel Testing Laboratory, Taejo, Daejeon,
Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1998
Cost
US$12 million (estimated) Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
This wind tunnel features three interchangeable test sections, solid wall, open-jet, slotted wall, probe traverse system, external balance, upper turntable, and model
handling sytem. It is closed-circuit, continuous-flow, atmospheric. Powered by a 2400-kW, 11-blade fan.
Data Acquisition
NEFF 471 128 channel

Aerodynamic testing of aircraft, missiles, projectiles, and underwater vehicles. Testing capabilities: basic force and measurement, dynamic stability, aeroelasticity,
rotary balance, ground effect, power-on simulation, control surface hinge moment, air intake performance, flow visualization, 2-D airfoil, rotary wing, aero acoustics.
User Fees
Contact Information
Wind Tunnel Testing Laboratory, Agency for Defense and Development (ADD), PO Box 35, Yuseong, Daejeon, ROK.
Tel: (82) 42 821 2011, Web site: http://www.add.re.kr/eng/wind.asp.


Chosun University, Department of Aerospace 1x 1 x 3 m (solid wall, square) 60 m/s (max)
Engineering, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1999
Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
US$253,900 (construction cost in 1999 KRW, Jan Dynamic Pressure
2006 conversion rate: 1USD=981.392 KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Assumed active per personal correspondence
1/15/06.
Contraction Ratio: 6. Fan: 1.5 m diameter, 132 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Jaesoo Kim (Manager), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Chosun University, 375 Susuk-Dong, Gwangju, 501-759, ROK.
Tel: (82) 62 230 7080, E-mail: jsckim@mail.chosun.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.chosun.ac.kr/eng/sub_03/sub3_06.html.


Chunbuk National University, Department of 0.6 x 0.45 x 1 m (open, rectangular) 35 m/s (max)
Aerospace Engineering, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1988
0.6 m Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Closed circuit. Contraction Ratio: 6.25, Fan: 0.9 m diameter, 22 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Bongzoo Sung (Manager), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Chunbuk National University, Duckjin-Gu, Jeonju, 561-756, ROK.
Tel: (82) 63 270 3994/2468, Fax: (82) 63 270 2472, Email (Manager): bzsung@chonbuk.ac.kr, Email (Dept): aerospace@chonbuk.ac.kr, Web site:
http://aerospace.chonbuk.ac.kr/eng_1.htm.


Chunbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of 0.6 x 0.6 x 1.3 m (solid wall, square) 60 m/s (max)
Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1991
Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Closed circuit. Contraction ratio: 7.1. Fan: 1.5 m diameter, 30 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Byungjoon Rho (Manager), Chunbuk National University, 664-14 1-Ga Duckjin-Dong Duckjin-Gu Jeonju, Jeonbuk, 561-156, ROK.
Tel: (82) 63 270 2468, Fax: (82) 63 270 2472, E-mail: rhobj@chonbuk.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.cbnu.edu/, http://fluid.chonbuk.ac.kr,
http://aerospace.chonbuk.ac.kr.


Chungnam National University, Department of 1.25 x 1.25 x 4 m (solid wall/open, square) 70 m/s (max)
Aerospace Engineering, Daejeon, Republic of
Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2000
Aero-Acoustic Wind Tunnel
Cost
2006 conversion rate: 1USD=980.999KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction Ratio: 5.76. Fan: 2.35 m diameter, 260 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Jongsoo Choi (Manager), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Chungnam National University, 220 Gung-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 305-764, ROK.
Tel: (82) 42 821 6683, E-mail: jchoi@cnu.ac.kr, Web site: http://plus.cnu.ac.kr/eng/sub03_menu.jsp?code=0509.


Hanyang University, Department of Mechanical 0.8 x 0.8 x 1.6 m (solid wall, square) 65 m/s (max)
Engineering, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2001
Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Circuit: suction, Contraction ratio: 6.25, Fan: 1.8 m diameter, 55 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Jinsoo Cho (Manager), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-Dong, Sungdong-Gu, Seoul 133-791, ROK.
Tel: (82) 2 2290 0429, Fax: (82) 2 2281 4016, E-mail: jscho@hanyang.ac.kr, Web site: http://me.hanyang.ac.kr/eng.


Inha University, Department of Aerospace 1 x 1 x 2 m (solid wall, octagonal) 70 m/s (max)
Engineering, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1978
Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel
Cost
2006 conversion rate: 1USD = 981.392 KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction Ratio: 4. Fan: 1.6 m diameter, 75 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Beomsoo Kim (Manager), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Inha University, 253 Young-Hyung-Dong, Nam-Goo, Incheon, ROK.
Tel: (82) 32 860 7355, E-mail: bskim@inha.ac.kr, Web site: http://aerospace.inha.ac.kr/.


Konkuk University, Department of Aerospace, 1 x 1 x 3.5 m (solid wall, square) 45.1 m (max)
Seoul, Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2000
Multi-Purpose Wind Tunnel
Cost
2006 conversion rate 1USD = 979.928 KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction Ratio: 7.2. Fan: 2.25 m diameter, 90 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Younghawn Byun (Manager), Konkuk University, Department of Aerospace, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-Gu, Seoul, ROK.
Tel.: 82-2-450-3114 ,Web site: http://www.konkuk.ac.kr:8001/eng/, http://aerospace.konkuk.ac.kr/.


Korea Advanced Institute of Science and 1.016 x 0.712 x 1.52 m (solid wall, rectangular) 62 m/s (max)
Technology, Aeronautics Department, Daejeon,
Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1981
Low Turbulence Open Circuit Wind Tunnel
Cost
2006 conversion rate: 1USD = 979.571 KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Circuit: suction. Contraction ratio: 7.2. Fan: 1.575 m diameter, 112 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Seung O Park (Manager), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Aeronautics Department, #2311 Gueong-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon,
305-701, ROK.
Tel: (82) 42 869 3753, 3785, E-mail: sopark@sop1.kaist.ac.kr, Web site: http://sop25.kaist.ac.kr/index.html.

KAIST Anechoic Wind Tunnel, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, South Korea (ROK).

Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), #1: 4 x 3 x 10 m (closed); #2: 6 x 4.5 x 13.5 m #1: 0.32 Mach; #2: 0.15 Mach; #3: 0.27 Mach
Daejeon, Republic of Korea (slotted); #3: 4 x 3 x 8 m (open jet)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1999
4 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel #1: 7.4; #2: 3.5; #3: 6.2
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of January 2006
Atmospheric
Closed-circuit, continuous-flow, atmospheric. The 4-meter, low-speed tunnel is powered by 3740-kW fan, has external balances, zero ground effects, air supply of
7.8 bar, air mass flow of 270 l/s.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Eusup Sim (Director), Space Test Division, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, 45 Eoeun-dong, Yousung-gu 2234 Daejeon, 305-333 ROK.
Tel: (82) 42 860 2470, Fax: (82) 42 860 2234, Email: esim@kari.re.kr, Web site: http://www.kari.re.kr/.

4 m Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT), Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeong, Korea

Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), 1 x 0.75 x 2 m (solid wall, rectangular) 110 m/s (max)
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1993
KARI 1 m Wind Tunnel
Cost
USD $427,965 (construction cost in 1993 KRW, Dynamic Pressure
Jan 2006 conversion rate: 1USD=981.389 KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction ratio: 11.5, Fan: 2 m diameter, 250 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Mr. Kijung Kwon (Manager), Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, 45 Uh-Eun-Dong Eusung-Gu, Daejeon, ROK.
Tel: (82) 42 860 2318, E-mail: kjkwon@kari.re.kr, Web site: http://adg.kari.re.kr/index.jsp.


Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Dae- 4 x 3 x 10 m (solid wall, rectangular) 110 m/s (max)
Jeon, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1998
KARI Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT)
Cost
USD $17,612,356 (construction cost in 1998 KRW, Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction ratio: 8.24, Fan: 7 m diameter, 4100 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Byeonghee Jang (Manager), Korea Aerospace Research Institute, 45 Uh-Eun-Dong Eusung-Gu, Daejeon, ROK.
Tel: (82) 42 860 2313, E-mail: cbh@kari.re.kr, Web site: http://adg.kari.kr.kr/index.jsp.

KARI LSWT, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Daejon,

South Korea (ROK).

Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA 3.5 x 2.45 x 8.7 m (solid wall, rectangular) 92 m/s (max)
Subsonic Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Choongbuk,
Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1999
KAFA Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT)
Cost
USD $12,768,179 (construction cost in 1999 KRW, Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Circuit: closed. Contraction ratio: 7.26. Fan: 5.25 m diameter, 2100 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Hyungsuck Chung (Manager), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Air Force Academy, Choong-Book Chung-Won-Koon, Nam-Il-Myun Ssang-Soo-
Ri, Sa Seo Ham 335-1, ROK.
Tel: (82) 043 290 6462/6176, Email: hschung@afa.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.afa.ac.kr/index_new.htm.


Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA #1: 3.5 x 2.45 x 8.7 m (closed); #2: 5.25 x 3.67 x #1: 0.27 Mach; #2: 0.11 Mach
Subsonic Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Choongbuk, 13.0 m (closed)
Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name August 5, 1999
KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel #1: 6.2; #2: 2.7
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
The KAFA Subsonic wind tunnel features a closed circuit with interchangeable test section, main section, future larger secondary test section, slotted wall and open-
jet test sections, conservative airlines, honeycomb flow straightener, and anti-turbulence screens, fixed-location elevating external balance, model support strut,
articulated sting, test section cart system, floor boundary layer removal, temperature control, heat exchange, flow survey mechanism, air exchange.
Data Acquisition
Jacobs Sverdrup's PC-based software
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Myong Sohn, KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel Lab, Sang Su-Ri 335-2 NamIl-Myun, Cheong Won-Gun Chung Buk 363-849, ROK
Tel: (82) 43 290 6160/6050, Fax: (82) 43 297 8109, Email: afalswt@mail.afa.ac.kr.

Subsonic Wind Tunnel, Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel Lab, Choongbuk, Korea.

Kyeongsang National University, School of 1 x 1 x 3 m (solid wall, square) 60 m/s (max)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jinjoo,
Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2002
Multi-Purpose Small Wind Tunnel
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction ratio: 7.2. Fan: 2 m diameter, 130 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Sooyong Cho (Manager), School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Kyeongsang National University, Kyeongnam Jinjoo-Shi, Gagoa-Dong 900
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Unit BK21 660-701, ROK.
Tel: (82) 055 751 6106, E-mail: aero@gsnu.ac.kr, Email (Cho): sycho@nongae.gsnu.ac.kr, Web site: http://engine.gsnu.ac.kr.


Pohang University of Science and Technology, 1.8 x 1.5 x 4.3 m (solid wall, rectangular) 75 m/s (max)
Pohang, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1995
Medium-Sized Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
US$1,018,792 (construction cost in 1995 KRW, Jan Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction ratio: 9. Fan: 3.4 m diameter, 260 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Sangjoon Lee (Manager), Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Nam Gu, Pohang, Gyungbuk, ROK.
Tel: (82) 54 279 0114, Fax: (82) 54 279 2099, E-mail: sjlee@postech.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.postech.ac.kr/new/e/.


Pohang University of Science and Technology, 0.72 x 0.6 x 2.5 m (solid wall, rectangular) 40 m/s (max)
Pohang, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1990
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction ratio: 9. Fan: 1.5 m diameter, 100 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Sangjoon Lee (Manager), Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Nam Gu, Pohang, Gyungbuk, ROK.
Tel: (82) 54 279 0114, Fax: (82) 54 279 2099, E-mail: sjlee@postech.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.postech.ac.kr/new/e/.


Pusan National University, Department of 0.7 x 0.7 x 2 m (solid wall, square) 60 m/s (max)
Aerospace Engineering, Pusan, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1992
Subsonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Contraction ratio: 6.6. Fan: 0.68 m diameter, 75 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Kyungchun Kim (Manager), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University, Geum-Jeong-Koo, Pusan, 609-735, ROK.
Tel: (82) 51 510 2324, E-mail: kckim@pusan.ac.kr, Web site: http://aerospace.ae.pusan.ac.kr.


Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 0.3 x 0.3 x 1 m (open, square) 35 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2000
Cost
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Circuit: blowing. Contraction ratio: 9. Fan: 0.3 m diameter, 3.7 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Kyungtae Lee (Manager), Sejong University, Kwang-Jin-Gu Goon-Ja-Dong, Choong-Moo-Kwan #410, 143-747, Seoul, ROK.
Tel: (82) 2 3408 3285, E-mail: kntlee@sejong.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.sejong.ac.kr/eng/, http://dasan.sejong.ac.kr/~slmarc/kntlee/.


Seoul National University, Department of 1.35 x 0.95 x 2.44 m (solid wall, rectangular) 70 m/s (max)
Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1961
Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Circuit: closed. Contraction ratio: 6.16. Fan: 1.8 m diameter, 56 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Chongnam Kim (Manager), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Kwan-Ak-Koo Shin-Rhim 9-Dong San 56-1 Mechanical
Engineering Unit301 #116,151-744, Seoul, ROK.
Tel: (82) 2 880 1915, Fax: 82 2 880 1910, E-mail: chongnam@plaza.snu.ac.kr, Web site: http://mae.snu.ac.kr/eng/default.asp.


Ulsan University, Ulsan, Republic of Korea 2 x 1.8 x 10 m (solid wall, rectangular) 35 m/s (max)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1999
Multi-Purpose Wind/Water Tunnel
Cost
2006 conversion rate: 1USD= 981.392 KRW)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1/15/06.
Circuit: suction. Contraction ratio: 4. Fan: 2.6 m diameter, 117 kW.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Donghwan Lee (Manager), Ulsan University, 680-749 San 29, Muger 2-Dong, Ulsan, ROK.
Tel: (82) 52 277 3101, E-mail: webmaster@mail.ulsan.ac.kr, Web site: http://www.ulsan.ac.kr/.

Subsonic Malaysia
Technological University of Malaysia, Faculty of 1.5 x 2 x 5.8 m (solid wall, interchangeable) 3 to 80 m/s (max)
Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Laboratory,
Johor, Malaysia
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name May 2001
UTM Low Speed Wind Tunnel (UTM-LST) 1
Cost
US$7 million (estimated construction cost) Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
Closed-return type, continuous, atmospheric, horizontal-arrangement, contraction ratio 9.
Data Acquisition
Pacific Instrument PI 6000 Series Data Acquisition System, Pre-test, Test, Post-Test Analysis/Calibration, Windows 2000/NT OS.

Static flight characteristics of aircraft in low speed regime, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code validation, determination of aircraft derivatives, and
aerodynamics of special problems (automotive, building structures, etc). Support to aeronautical education. Aircraft aerodynamic (3-D model aircraft testing),
automotive/ground vehicle aerodynamics wind engineering, half-model testing, airfoil testing, aerodynamic derivative testing.
User Fees
Contact Information
Mohd Khir Muhammad (Head of Aero Laboratory), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
Tel: (60) 7550 5642/4857, Fax: (60) 7 556 6159, Email: aerolab@fkm.utm.my, Web site: http://www.fkm.utm.my/aerolab/.

UTM Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Aeronautical Laboratory, Technological University of

Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
Subsonic Netherlands
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), 1.25 x 0.25 m 0.15 Mach
Delft, The Netherlands
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Gradient
Closed-circuit, low-speed wind tunnel. Flexible wall with suction slits for control of pressure gradient.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Low-Speed Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Leeghwaterstraat 42, 2628 CA Delft, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31) 15 2781320, Fax: (31) 15 2783533, Web site: http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_facilities_fr.html.

Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Low 1.25 x 1.80 m 0.35 Mach
Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Subsonic Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed circuit. Turbulence level < 0.1%, six component balance, automatic multi-manometer.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Low Speed Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Leeghwaterstraat 42, 2628 CA Delft, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31) 15 2781320, Fax: (31) 15 2783533, Web site: http://www.hsa.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_facilities_fr.html.

German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP #1: 6.0 x 6.0 m (closed or slotted walls); #2: 8.0 x #1: 152 m/s (max); #2: 116 m/s (max); #3: 85 m/s (max) ;
Business Unit, Emmeloord, The Netherlands 6.0 m (closed or slotted walls); #3: 8.0 x 6.0 m #4: 62 m/s (max)
(open jet); #4: 9.5 x 9.5 m (closed walls)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1980
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LLF) #1: 6.0; #2: 5.3; #3: 3.9; #4: 3.9
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Continuous, closed-return, atmospheric wind tunnel. Largest low-speed atmospheric wind tunnel in Europe. One open-jet configuration in large anechoic testing hall,
single-stage fan with 8 non-adjustable blades of 12.35 m diameter. Direct drive, variable speed synchronous electric motor (12.65 MW, 225 rpm). Intermittent air
exchange and throttle system.
Data Acquisition
On-/off-line static and dynamic data acquisition and processing systems. Image processing system. Acoustic data processing and analyzing system.
User Fees
Contact Information
Ir. G.H. Hegen, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), PO Box 175, 8300 AD Emmeloord, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31) 527 24 8519, Fax: (31) 527 24 8582, Email: info@dnw.aero, Web site: http://www.dnw.aero/.

Large Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (LLF), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Emmeloord, The Netherlands.
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP 3.0 x 2.25 m (closed walls) 80 m/s (max)
Business Unit, Emmeloord,The Netherlands
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1983
Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 1.4
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Continuous atmospheric wind tunnel. Closed return circuit, atmospheric pressure, two interchangeable test sections. Single-stage fan with eight non-adjustable
blades. Direct drive, variable speed, 700-kW electric motor. Contraction ratio 1:9.
Data Acquisition
64 measuring channels.

Testing of aircraft models, windfields around buildings or helicopter decks on ships. Ground effect simulation.
User Fees
Contact Information
Ir. G.H. Hegen, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), PO Box 175, 8300 AD Emmeloord, The Netherlands.
Wind tunnel located at Voorsterweg 31, 8316 PR Markesse, Netherlands.

Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (LST), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Emmeloord, The Netherlands.
Subsonic Scotland
University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace 1.15 x 0.95 m 30 m/s (max)
Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
1.15 x 0.95 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed-return facility. Three-component mechanical balance. Rotary vortex generator for helicopter rotor wake simulation.
Data Acquisition
200-channel parallel data acquistion system, 50 kHz per channel. Automatic gain setting and offset removal for maximum sensitivity. Digital PIV sytem based on two
Nd-Yag lasers and two Kodak Megaplus digital cameras. Three-channel TSI IFA 300 constant temperature anemoneter system w/ DISA probes and supports.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. D.G. Thomson (Head), Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, James Watt Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.
Tel: (44) 41 330-3575, Fax: (44) 41 330-5560, Web site: http://www.aero.gla.ac.uk/Research/LowSpeedAero/facilities.htm.

Subsonic Scotland
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Argyll Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The Argyll is a closed-return wind tunnel with two interchangeable working sections. A yawing capability up to 10° included. Rotary vortex generator and a
mechanical six-component balance.
Data Acquisition
200-channel parallel data acquistion system, 50 kHz per channel, automatic gain setting and offset removal for maximum sensitivity. Digital PIV system based on
two Nd-Yag lasers and two Kodak Megaplus digital cameras. Three-channel TSI IFA 300 constant temperature anemoneter system w/ DISA probes and supports.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. D.G. Thomson (Head), Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, James Watt Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.

Argyll Wind Tunnel, University of Glasgow, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.
Subsonic Scotland
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Handley-Page Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The wind tunnel features three-strut hydraulic system. Closed return.
Data Acquisition
200-channel parallel data acquistion system, 50 kHz per channel, automatic gain setting and offset removal for maximum sensitivity. Digital PIV system based on
two Nd-Yag lasers and two Kodak Megaplus digital cameras. Three-channel TSI IFA 300 constant temperature anemoneter system w/ DISA probes and supports.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. D.G. Thomson (Head), Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Glasgow, James Watt Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.

Subsonic Sweden
Swedish Defense Reseach Agency, FOI, 3.6 m (diameter), 8 m (long) 0.23 Mach
Stockholm, Sweden
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1940
LT1 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 1.8
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Ambient
Data Acquisition
64 channels, 15 bit AD, 180 kHz VAX 750 data system.

Aeronautics, ground transporation, buildings, roll rotation, intake suction.
User Fees
Contact Information
Bengt Hultqvist (Head), Experimental Aerodynamics, Swedish Defence Research Agency, SE-164 90 Stockholm, Sweden.
Tel (Hultqvist): (46) 8 555 043 39, Tel (Main): (46) 8 555 030 00, Fax: (46) 8 555 031 00, Email (Hultqvist): bengt.hultqvist@foi.se, Web site: http://www.foi.se/.

Subsonic Wind Tunnel (LT1), Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm, Sweden.

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Transonic Wind Tunnels

China Aerospace Science and Technology Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Transonic Wind Tunnel 161
Taiwan, China
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Transonic Wind Tunnel 163
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang City, 2.4 m Transonic Wind Tunnel 165
Sichuan Province, China
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang City, Low Temperature Compressed Air 167
Sichuan Province, China Transonic Wind Tunnel
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, Heilongjiang FL-3 High-Speed Air-Inlet Test 169
Province, China Platform
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) 171
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Two-Dimensional (2D) Wind Tunnel 173
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France S1Ma Continuous Atmospheric 175
Sub/Transonic Wind Tunnel
Germany European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), Cologne, Germany 2 x 2.4 m Cryogenic Wind Tunnel 177
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Transonic Wind Tunnel (KRG) 179
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWG) 181
Italy Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy PT-1 Transonic Wind Tunnel 183
Sweden Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel 185
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Transonic China
Aerospace Science and Technology Research
Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan,
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition

Aerodynamic characteristics of regional jets, development of high-speed gas dynamics, aerodynamic design of high-speed trains, CFD verification, shock and
boundary layer interactions.
User Fees
Contact Information
National Cheng Kung University, No.1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, China.
Tel: (886) 6 275 7575, Web site: http://www.ncku.edu.tw/english/about_ncku/research_services.htm.

Transonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 0.76 x 0.53 m 0.3 to 1.15 Mach
Technology Corporation (CASC) Date Built/Upgrade
Transonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Continuous flow with the flow field characterized by high uniformity, low turbulence intensity, low noise.
Data Acquisition

Measurement of pressure and forces on aircraft models, flutter and buffeting tests, dynamic derivative tests, aircraft-missile interference tests, hinge moment
measurement, and air inlet model tests.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 10 68740603, Fax: (86) 10 68374758, Email: caaa@bia701.com, Web site: http://www.bia701.com/HRML/e_16_fd08_01.htm.

Transonic Wind Tunnel,
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA),
Beijing, China

Transonic China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development 2.4 x 2.4 m 0.3 to 1.2 Mach
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
2.4 m Transonic Wind Tunnel 40 to 70
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
4.5 atmospheric (max)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Wind tunnel is 66 m long x 33 m wide. China claims this to be the largest transonic wind tunnel in Asia. Manufactured by Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI),
Stockholm, Sweden.
Data Acquisition

Research and development of aerospace flight vehicles.
User Fees
Contact Information
http://www.cardcgs.com/default2.asp

Note: CARDC 2.4 m is a scaled version of the tunnel, FFA T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel Circuit (Sweden) manufactured by The
Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI).
2.4 m Transonic Wind Tunnel, China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang, China.
Transonic China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development
Province, China
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1998
Low Temperature Compressed Air Transonic
Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Prototype, not yet operational
10.6 bar
Refrigeration system uses liquid nitrogen.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 816 2463053, Fax:( 86) 816 246 3051, Email: ssh@cardcgs.com, Web site: http://www.cardcgs.com/cardcgs/index.asp,

Transonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
FL-3 High-Speed Air-Inlet Test Platform
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Test platform serves as a special-use experimental wind tunnel with a sub- and transonic air inlet.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Yu Tao (Director), Chinese Aerodynamic Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), PO Box 88, 2 Yiman Street, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
150001.

Transonic England
Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), 2.74 x 2.44 m 0.2 to 1.4 Mach
Bedford, England
Temperature Range
Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) 13, 17
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of October 2005. 24-hour
0.8 to 1.2 bar
operation.
Continuous-flow, closed-circuit tunnel driven primarily by the main fan with additional speed provided by a compressor. Incidence range of –10° to +40°, roll range
0° to 360°, maximum model length 1.83 meters (6 feet).
Data Acquisition
Schlieren and on-line computing facilities.

Has been involved in many test programs around the world and played a part in every major aircraft and weapons development program in which the UK industry has
been involved. It has also made significant contributions in transonic aerodynamic research, notably in the field of scale effects.
User Fees
Contact Information
Aircraft Research Association Ltd, Manton Lane, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 7PF, England.
Tel: (44) 0 1234 350681, Fax: (44) 0 1234 328584, Email: ara@ara.co.uk, Web site: http://www.ara.co.uk/transonic_wind_tunnel.htm.

Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT), Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England.
Transonic England
Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), 0.20 x 0.46 m 102 to 296 m/s
Bedford, England
Temperature Range
Two-Dimensional (2D) Wind Tunnel 19
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1.5 to 4.0 bar
The 2D wind tunnel is a blowdown tunnel, it has a run time of 20 seconds, -11 to +20° incidence range, roll range n/a and a maximum model length of 0.13 m.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Aircraft Research Association Ltd, Manton Lane, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 7PF, England, UK.
Tel: (44) 0 1234 350681, Fax: (44) 0 1234 328584, Email: ara@ara.co.uk, Web site: http://www.ara.co.uk/z4t.htm.

Transonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research #1: 40 x 42.6 m (slotted walls); #2: 45 x 45 m (solid #1: up to 1; #2: up to 1; #3 (solid): up to 1; #3 (anechoic
Center, Modane-Avrieux, France walls); # 3: 45.4 x 47 m (solid walls); #3: 38.5 x walls): up to 0.85 Mach
38.5 (anechoic walls)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade Ambient (-4 to 140°F)
Facility Name 1951
S1Ma Continuous Atmospheric Sub/Transonic #1: 7.3 to 7.5; #2: 7.7; #3 (solid): 7.7 to 7.9; #3 (anechoic):
Wind Tunnel Cost
67
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Atmospheric
Continuous, high-speed, closed-circuit, atmospheric test facility, 88 MV. Three interchangeable test sections, 26 ft in diameter, 25 ft long. Slotted construction type.
Return type circuit. Two counter rotating fans, 88 MW Pelton turbines. Channel to record up to 2000 pressures. External and internal balances. Rectangular closed
circuit 155 m long x 40 m wide, maximum diameter of 24 m, test section diameter of 8 m.
Data Acquisition
DEC VAX 6320, up to 120 channels + 64 channels 20 kHz

Aero, ground transportation, building, CTS, rotor and propeller test rigs, icing, real engines test types.
User Fees
Contact Information
Jean-Paul Bècle (Director), Modane-Avrieux Wind Tunnel Department, ONERA, PO Box 25, F-73500 Modane, France.
Tel: (33) 4 79 20 20 91, Fax: (33) 4 79 20 21 68, Email: becle@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/wind-tunnels/s1ma-bis.html.

S1Ma Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France.
Transonic Germany
European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), 2.0 x 2.4 x 9.0 m 0.15 to 1.35 Mach
Cologne, Germany
Temperature Range
2 x 2.4 m Cryogenic Wind Tunnel up to 50 (full models), up to 85 (half models)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1.25 to 4.5 bar
Closed aerodynamic circuit wind tunnel, with an insulated stainless steel pressure shell. It has drive power up to 50 MW. A –160° C nitrogen flow is driven through
two filling screens into the stilling chamber and through a honeycomb flow straightener and two anti-turbulence screens, with 12:1 contraction ratio.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
European Transonic Wind Tunnel, Ernst-Mach-Strasse, D-51147 Köln, Germany.
Tel/Fax: (49) (0) 2203/609, Email: manager@etw.de, Web site: http://www.etw.de/windtunnel/windtunnel.htm.

2 x 2.4 m Cryogenic Wind Tunnel, European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), Cologne Germany.
Transonic Germany
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, 0.4 x 0.35 m 102 to 323 m/s
Germany
Temperature Range
Transonic Wind Tunnel (KRG)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Intermittent Ludwieg tube (t = 0.6 s - 1.0 s).
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

Transonic Wind Tunnel (KRG), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany.
Transonic Germany
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, 1.0 x 1.0 m 0.3 to 0.9 Mach (adaptive walls); 0.3 - 1.2 (perforated
Germany walls); 1.3 - 2.2 Mach (flexible Laval nozzle)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 293 - 315°K
Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWG) 1.8
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
0.3 to 1.5 ???
Continuous pressurized wind tunnel. The TWG is a continuously working wind tunnel with three exchangeable test sections for subsonic, transonic, and supersonic
speed ranges. The 4 (or 8) stage axial compressor has an electric power supply of 12 MW. An auxiliary suction plant with radial compressors for the transonic test
section (perforated walls) is also available.
Data Acquisition
150,000 lines of code unix operating system.
User Fees
Contact Information

Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWG), German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany.
Transonic Italy
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, 0.35 x 0.45 x 0.6 m up to .35 Mach (continuous, subsonic), up to 1.1 Mach
Italy (intermittent at subsonic and transonic), up to 1.4 Mach
(supersonic)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
PT-1 Transonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1.85 bar (max)
The PT-1 is a pressurized wind tunnel facility with a continuous and intermittent flow in subsonic, transonic, and supersonic regimes. 145-kW speed fan. Powered by
high pressure air-injection system. Runtime of 150 seconds.
Data Acquisition

Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic tests on wing sections, rotor and turbine blades, missiles, launch vehicles at subsonic, transonic and supersonic regimes in support of
industry and research.
User Fees
Contact Information

PT-1 Transonic Wind Tunnel, Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy.
Transonic Sweden
Swedish Defense Reseach Agency, FOI, 1.5 x 1.5 m 0.2 to 1.25 (slotted walls), 0.2 to 2.0 (solid walls)
Stockholm, Sweden
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1989
T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel up to 80
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Closed-circuit, pressurized. Up to four runs per hour. Tests available in 10 minutes.
Data Acquisition
Unsteady force measurements, electronic pressure scanning systems, and flow visualization.
User Fees
Contact Information
Bengt Hultqvist (Head), Experimental Aerodynamics, Swedish Defense Research Agency, SE-164 90 Stockholm, Sweden.
Tel (Hultqvist): (46) 8 555 043 39, Tel (Main): (46) 8 555 030 00, Fax: (46) 8 555 031 00, Email (Hultqvist): bengt.hultqvist@foi.se, Web site: http://www.foi.se/.

T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel, Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm, Sweden.

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Supersonic Wind Tunnels

Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium S-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 187
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Supersonic Wind Tunnel 191
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China BIA Trisonic Wind Tunnel FD-06 193
AKA: Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics (BIA) or 701st Institute of the China
Aerospace Science & Technology Corp (CASC)
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang 1.2 x 1.2 m Trisonic Wind Tunnel 195
City, Sichuan Province, China
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, FL-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 197
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China Directly Coupled Supersonic Combustion 203
Test Platform
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China Tube/Shock Supersonic Wind Tunnel 205
China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, High Speed Wind Tunnel 207
Tiangsu Province, China
China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, Supersonic Wind Tunnel 209
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Small-Scale High-Speed Research Wind 211
Province, China Tunnel
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Pilot Wind Tunnel Z4T 213
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Supersonic Wind Tunnel (SWT) 215
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Europe and Asia

England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England 0.21 x 0.15 m Transonic/Supersonic Wind 217
Tunnel
France French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France Supersonic Wind Tunnel S30 219
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fluid Mechanics R1Ch Supersonic Wind Tunnel 221
and Energetics Branch, Meudon Center, Meudon, France
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S2Ma Continuous Pressurized 223
France Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S3Ma Blow-down Pressurized 225
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.2 x 0.2 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel 227
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.8 x 0.45 m High Reynolds Number 229
Technology (IAT), Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Transonic Wind Tunnel
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 1 x 1 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel 231
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute Combustion Wind Tunnel 233
(TRDI), Tachikawa, Japan
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute High Altitude Engine Test Facility (ATF) 235
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute Trisonic Wind Tunnel 237
Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI 60 cm Trisonic Wind Tunnel 239
Kobe), Kobe, Japan
Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Continuous Circulation Cryogenic Wind 241
Kobe), Kobe, Japan Tunnel
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Europe and Asia

Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, ST-15 Wind Tunnel 243
The Netherlands
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, ST-3 Vacuum Wind Tunnel 245
The Netherlands
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, TST-27 Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel 247
The Netherlands
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2.0 x 1.8 m Continuous Pressurized Wind 249
Tunnel (HST)
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Supersonic Blow-Down Wind Tunnel 251
(SST)
Singapore National University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, DSO Trisonic Wind Tunnel 253
Singapore
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Supersonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Three 40 x 36 cm test sections 15 to 20 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
S-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 4
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Continuous, closed circuit. Ackeret type, driven by a 615 kW axial flow compressor. A solid half nozzle M=1.43 for shock wave/boundary layer studies. Three-
degree traverse mechanism, variable incidence mechanism up to +/- 35 degrees.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/ar-dept/virtual/facility/s1/s1.html.

S-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel, Von Karman Institute (VKI), St. Genese, Belgium.
Supersonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 8 x 10 cm 3.5 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
S-4 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 50
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
3 to 18 bar
Blow-down wind tunnel. Test times can be achieved in 8 to 25 minutes, depending on stagnation pressure. Model incidence range from –10 to +10 degrees. The S-4
is also equipped with shadow and schlieren systems.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 96 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/ar-dept/virtual/facility/.

S-4 Supersonic Wind Tunnel, Von Karman Institute (VKI), St. Genese, Belgium.
Supersonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 0.6 x 0.6 x 1.575 m 0.4 to 4.5 Mach
Technology Corp (CASC) Date Built/Upgrade
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Intermittent semi-return.
Data Acquisition
Central integrated measurement, control, and processing by computers.

Measurement of pressure and forces on full- and half-scale models, measurement of aircraft roll characteristics, air inlet model tests, jet flow interference tests, inter-
stage separation and multi-body interference tests, Magnus effect tests, measurement of hinge moments on full- and half-scale models, tests on the dynamic and
unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of aircraft, flutter and buffeting tests, model free flight tests, and flow and vortex visualization.
User Fees
Contact Information

Supersonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 0.6 x 0.6 m (perforated wall) 0.4 to 4.5 Mach (using 10 fixed nozzle blocks)
Facility Name 1962
BIA Trisonic Wind Tunnel FD-06 12 to 30
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
up to ~15 atmospheric
Semi-blowdown (ejector augmented), AGARD B models used to compare data with western tunnels.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

BIA Trisonic Wind Tunnel FD-06, China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China.
Supersonic China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development 1.2 x 1.2 m 0.6 to 3.5 Mach
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1979
1.2 x 1.2 m Trisonic Wind Tunnel 35
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of November 2005. 3000
up to 4.5 atmospheric
runs/year reported.
Run time 45 to 60 seconds. Named transonic by manufacturer.
Data Acquisition
Improvements planned to flow quality.
User Fees
Contact Information

Supersonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of 0.6 x 0.6 m 0.35 to 4.0 Mach
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1960
FL-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

When testing at transonic speeds, the upper and lower walls are perforated walls with an open area ratio of 15 percent with pore diameters of ten mm and solid side
walls. When testing at supersonic speeds, all four walls are solid walls.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Yu Tao (Director), Chinese Aerodynamic Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), PO Box 88, 2 Yiman Street, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China 150001.

Supersonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of 1.2 x 1.2 m 0.4 to 2.0 Mach
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
FL-2 Supersonic Wind Tunnel Variable
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Direct-action, intermittent blowdown, trisonic wind tunnel with a variable Reynolds number.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
China.

Supersonic China
Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of 0.64 x 0.52 m 0.2 to 1.5 Mach (continuously adjustable)
Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1963
FL-7 Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Test section has four walls with perforated wall panels of variable open area ratio.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Yu Tao (Director), Chinese Aerodynamic Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), PO Box 88, 2 Yiman Street, Harbin,Heilongjiang Province, China
150001.

Supersonic China
Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas 2.5 Mach
Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 2,100°K
Facility Name Lab founded in 1994, wind tunnel - unknown
Directly Coupled Supersonic Combustion Test
Platform Cost
Dynamic Pressure
1.5 Mpa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Kerosene combustion uses atomized pilot hydrogen and wall cavities. Combustion efficiency is 90 percent and pressure recovery is over 50 percent.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Jiang Zonglin (Director), Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), No.15 Beisihuanxi Road, Beijing 100080, China.
Tel (Lab): (86) 10 62548132, Tel (Director): (86) 10 62545947, Fax (Director): (86) 10 62657081, Email (Director): zljiang@imech.ac.cn, Web site:
http://www.lhd.cn.

Supersonic China
Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas 0.8 m (jet tube diameter) 3.5 to 6 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1994
Tube/Shock Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Run time: 30-50 milliseconds.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
http://www.lhd.cn.

Supersonic China
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and 0.6 x 0.6 m 0.3 to 3.0 Mach
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1970
High Speed Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Angle of attack: -30° to +30°. Sideslip angle: -10° to +10°.
Data Acquisition

Tests on aircraft, submersibles, engine intake and exhaust gas, and jet flows.
User Fees
User fees: force measurements, 800 Chinese Yuan ($100 USD)/hr; pressure measurement 800-1000 Chinese Yuan ($100-125 USD)/hr; special cases by negotiation.
Contact Information
Professor Xu Xiwu (Dean), College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,
China 210016.
Tel: (86) 25 84891585, Email: xwxu@nuaa.edu.cn, Web site: http://www.nuaa.edu.cn.

Supersonic China
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and 0.6 x 0.6 m 0.5 to 3.5 Mach
China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition

Tests on aircraft and missiles: six-component force measurements, pressure measurements, hinge moment measurements, flutter and buffeting tests, and acoustic
environment tests.
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Xu Xiwu (Dean), College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,
China 210016.
Tel: (86) 25 84891585, Email: xwxu@nuaa.edu.cn, Web site: http://www.nuaa.edu.cn.

Supersonic China
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, 0.3 x 0.3 m 0.3 to 4.5 Mach
NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Small-Scale High-Speed Research Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

Supersonic England
Bedford, England
Temperature Range
Pilot Wind Tunnel Z4T 11
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Pilot
Atmospheric
Small transonic induction. The Z4T is a small transonic wind tunnel that is 1/12 size of the transonic wind tunnel (TWT). Normal run time is up to 120 seconds, -10
to +18° incidence range, a fixed angle of roll range and maximum model length of 0.20 m.
Data Acquisition
Schlieren and on-line computing facilities.
User Fees
Contact Information

Supersonic England
Bedford, England
Temperature Range
Supersonic Wind Tunnel (SWT) 8 (Mach 3.0); 20 (Mach 1.4)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
0.4 to 1.4 bar
The SWT wind tunnel has a continuous run time, -10 to +40° incidence range, maximum model length of 3.50 meters (11.48 feet).
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

Supersonic England
Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research 0.21 x 0.15 x 0.6 m (rectangular cross section 0.3 to 2.0 Mach
Laboratory, Manchester, England w/slotted walls, transonic); 0.21 x 0.15. 0.8 m
(rectangular cross section w/slotted wall)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
0.21 x 0.15 m Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Blowdown into reservoir of 130 m³, pressurised, intermittent flow, approximate run time 45 seconds, reservoir evacuation < 5 minutes, supersonic Mach 2.0 liners,
upstream drier, quick operating valve.
Data Acquisition
Mach-Zehnder interferometer, schlieren systems, scanivalves, pressure transducers, digital oscilloscopes, digital spectrum analyser for recording transient, unsteady
or fluctating flows.
User Fees
Contact Information
David Smith (Operations Director), Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Barton Airport Eccles, Manchester M 30 7 RU England.
Tel/Fax: (44) 0161 787 8749, Email (Director): david@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Email (General): Flowsci@fs1.ae.man.ac.uk, Web site:

Supersonic France
French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis 30 x 30 cm 1.5 to 4.4 Mach
(ISL), Saint Louis, France
Temperature Range
Supersonic Wind Tunnel S30 1.4
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
0.2 to 1 Mpa
Continuous four-stage 7-MW radial compressor.
Data Acquisition
Shadow or schlieren photography, measurement of steady and transient pressures, force and moment measurements using wind tunnel balance, laser Doppler
velocimetry, particle image velocimetry, Doppler picture technique, and visualization by means of holographic filters.
User Fees
Contact Information
French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), 5 rue du Général Cassagnou, 68300 Saint-Louis, France.
Mailing address: ISL, PO Box 70034, FR 68301 Saint Louis CEDEX.
Tel: (33) 3 89 69 50 00, (33) 3 89 69 50 02, Email: isl@isl.tm.fr, Web site: http://www.isl.tm.fr/en/generalite/intro_pres_e.html.

Supersonic Wind Tunnel S30, French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France.
Supersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 0.06 m 3 or 5 Mach
Center, Fluid Mechanics and Energetics Branch,
Meudon Center, Meudon, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade up to 400°K (variable stagnation temperature)
R1Ch Supersonic Wind Tunnel 10 to 30
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
variable up to 15 bar
Long blowdowns from 10 to 60 seconds. Free test section that can be equipped with Mach 3 or Mach 5 nozzles with exit diameter of 0.326 m. Maximum mass flow
rate of 80 kg/s.
Data Acquisition
Silent Mach 3 version being developed.
User Fees
Contact Information
Bruno Chanetz, Lucien Morzenski, Meudon Center, ONERA – DAFE 8, rue des Vertugadins 92190 Meudon, France.
Tel (Chanetz): (33) 1 46 23 51 76, Tel (Morzenski): (33) 1 46 23 51 46, Fax: (33) 1 46 23 51 58, Email (Chanetz): chanetz@onera.fr, Email (Morzenski):
morzenski@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/.

R1Ch Supersonic Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fluid Mechanics and Energetics
Branch, Meudon Center, Meudon, France.
Supersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 1.75 x 1.77 m (transonic), 1.75 x 1.93 m up to 1.3 Mach (transonic); 1.5 to 3.1 Mach (supersonic)
Center, Modane-Avrieux, France (supersonic)
Temperature Range
S2Ma Continuous Pressurized 5.4 (transonic); 4.0 (supersonic)
Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
2.5 bar
Variable pressure, closed circuit, continuous-flow wind tunnel. Sting holder: angle of attack range = 25°, roll range = 360°. Variable knuckle from - 10° to + 25°.
Three degree of freedom bent sting: angle of attack range = 46°, yaw range = 22° (with zero roll angle, with continuous variation of incidence (or yaw), yaw (or
incidence) being constant. Wall turret: angle of attack range = 360°. Captive trajectory system.
Data Acquisition
160 analogous channels, 14 bits sign A/D convert; 64 channels, at 20 KHz per channel by SAR system and 56 channels, at 17.7 KHz by PCM systems. Real-time
data processing, model supports and tunnel wall interferences
User Fees
Contact Information
Jean-Paul Bècle (Director), Modane-Avrieux Wind Tunnel Department, PO Box 25, F-73500 Modane, France.

Supersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 0.56 x 0.78 m (transonic), 0.76 x 0.80 m 0.1 to 1.3 Mach (transonic), 1.65 to 5.5 Mach (supersonic)
Center, Modane-Avrieux, France (supersonic)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 530°K (max)
S3Ma Blow-down Pressurized 3.5 (transonic); 3.2 (supersonic)
Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Active (3 to 20 runs per/day)
.02 to 7.5 bar
Blow down wind tunnel. Rectangular test section.
Data Acquisition
48 analog channels: steady measurements rate up to 25 Hz per channel with a 14 bits + sign A/D converter
User Fees
Contact Information
Jean-Paul Bècle (Director), Modane-Avrieux Wind Tunnel Department, PO Box 25, F-73500 Modane, France.

Supersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 0.2 x 0.2 m 1.5 to 2.5 Mach
0.2 x 0.2 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
50 to 120 kPa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Continuous circulation type. The settling chamber was repaired in 1999 to improve the quality of the air flow in the test section.
Data Acquisition

Research on aerodynamics in a supersonic low-turbulence environment.
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr. Masashi Shigemi (WINTEC Director), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Aerospace Research Center
(ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), 7-44-1 Jindaiji Higashi-machi, Chofu-shi, Tokyo182-8522, Japan.
Tel: (81) 3 422 40 3000, Fax: (81) 3 422 40 3281, Email (Director): shigemi.masashi@jaxa.jp, Email (WINTEC): wintec@chofu.jaxa.jp, Web site:

Supersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 0.8 x 0.45 m 0.2 to 1.4 Mach
Date Built/Upgrade
0.8 x 0.45 m High Reynolds Number Transonic 5 to 40
Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
196 to 1176 kPa
Intermittent blowdown type. Test duration: 9 – 100 seconds
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
(ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), 7-44-1 Jindaiji Higashi-machi, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8522, Japan.

0.8 x 0.45 m High Reynolds Number Transonic Wind Tunnel, Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology
(IAT), Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan.
Supersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 1x1m 1.4 to 4.0 Mach
Date Built/Upgrade
1 x 1 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel 20 (Mach 1.4); up to 60 (Mach 4)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
150 kPa (Mach 1.4) to 1,400 kPa (Mach 4.0)
Intermittent blowdown type wind tunnel. Run time 40 seconds. Electric powered multi-jack type, two dimensional flexible nozzle. Flow rate 280 kg/sec.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

1 x 1 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT),
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan.
Supersonic Japan
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research 0 to 4 Mach
and Development Institute (TRDI), Tachikawa,
Japan
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1992
Combustion Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
0.01 to 3.8 Mpa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Air flow rate: 150 kg/sec. Pitch angle and yaw angle in the semi-free jet configuration: 0° ~ +15°, -5° ~ +5°, respectively. Simulation of flight conditions at 0 –
80,000 ft.; testing of ramjet engines in direct-connect (DC) or semi-free jet (SFJ) configurations; testing of solid fuel propellants consecutively in the booster phase,
the transient separation phase, and the subsequent ramjet phase.
Data Acquisition

Ramjet engine flight conditions and engine performance.
User Fees
Contact Information
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI), 3rd Research Center, 1st Division, 1-2-10, Sakae-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo,
190-8533, Japan. Wind tunnel located at: Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Facility of the Sapporo Test Center, 1032, Komasato, Chitose-shi, Hokkaido, 066-0011,
Japan. Tel: (81) 123 42 3501.
Tel.: (81) 425 24 2411, Email: info@jda-trdi.go.jp, Web site: http://www.jda-trdi.go.jp/happyou.htm.

Supersonic Japan
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research 4.3 m (diameter), 12 m (long) 0 to 2.5
Japan
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade -72 to +270°C
Facility Name 2002
High Altitude Engine Test Facility (ATF)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
3.5 to 101.3 kPa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Largest facility of its kind in Japan. Air flow: 0 – 70 kg/sec. Engine intake pressure: 7.5 – 244 kPa. Intermediate pressure air source: two IHI LM 1600 centrifugal air
compressor gas turbines with a pressure of 686 kPa and a flow rate of 35 kg/sec. Test section can mount engines up to 1.5 tons.
Data Acquisition

Jet engine high altitude performance up to 75,000 ft.
User Fees
Contact Information
Japan. Tel: (81) 123 42 3501.

Supersonic Japan
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research 2 x 2 m 0.3 to 4.0 Mach
Japan
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1995
Trisonic Wind Tunnel 100 and up
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Type: intermittent blow-down. Measuring time: 10 seconds or more. Interval between tests: within 45 minutes. Noise level: 65 Db and below.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Japan. Tel: (81) 123 42 3501.

Trisonic Wind Tunnel, Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI), Tachikawa,
Japan. Located at the Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Facility, Sapporo Test Center Hokkaido, Japan.
Supersonic Japan
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and 600 mm (nozzle exit diameter) 0.4 to 4.0 Mach
Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Kobe, Japan
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade Room temperature
60 cm Trisonic Wind Tunnel 2
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
1.18 Mpa (max)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

This wind tunnel covers subsonic, transonic, and supersonic regimes; it has been named trisonic by the manufacturer. Intermittent blow out. Nozzle outlet: 0.6 x 0.6
m. Blowing time: 20 seconds at Mach 1.0, 35 seconds at Mach 2.5. Air source: spherical air tank with an inside diameter of 8 meters.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Main Plant, 1-1, Wadasaki-cho 1-chome, Hyogo-ku, Kobe, 652-8585 Japan.
Tel: (81) 78 672 2221 2224, Fax: (81) 78 672 2245, Web site: http://www.mhi.co.jp/kobe/mhikobe-e/products/etc/siken/high_index.html.

60 cm Trisonic Wind Tunnel, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Kobe, Japan.
Supersonic Japan
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and 0.2 to 2.5 Mach
Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Kobe, Japan
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 90 to 300° K
Facility Name Currently in the planning stage
Continuous Circulation Cryogenic Wind Tunnel up to 240
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
110 to 500 kPa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Currently in the planning stage.

Liquid nitrogen injected upstream; gaseous nitrogen exhausted downstream. Blowing time maximum 30 minutes.
Data Acquisition

To be used for prediction of turbulence transition and flow separation points.
Quiet supersonic nozzle.
User Fees
Contact Information
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Main Plant, 1-1, Wadasaki-cho 1-chome, Hyogo-ku, Kobe, 652-8585 Japan.
Tel: (81) 78 672 2221-2224, Fax: (81) 78 672 2245, Web site: http://www.mhi.co.jp/kobe/mhikobe-e/products/etc/siken/high_index.html.

Continuous Circulation Cryogenic Wind Tunnel,

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe),
Kobe, Japan.
Supersonic Netherlands
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), 150 x 150 mm 0.7 to 3.0 Mach
High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
ST-15 Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Blow-down wind tunnel. Runtime 800 seconds. Interchangeable nozzle blocks.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
High-Speed Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31) 15 2784501, Fax: (31) 15 2787077, Web site: http://www.aero.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_facilities_fr.html.

ST-15 Wind Tunnel, Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Delft, The Netherlands.
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), 30 x 30 mm 1.5 to 3.5 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1969
ST-3 Vacuum Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Supersonic, small vacuum wind tunnel. Runtime 2 hours. Semiflexible symmetrical or fixed asymmetrical test section selectable, 50 kW vacuum pump, silica gel
dryer.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (31) 15 2784501, Fax : (31) 15 2787077, Web site: http://www.aero.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_facilities_fr.html.

ST-3 Vacuum Wind Tunnel, Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Delft, The Netherlands.
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), 280 x (250-270) mm (closed or slotted) #1: 0.5 to 0.85 Mach (subsonic), #2: 1.15 to 4.2 Mach
High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands (supersonic)
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
TST-27 Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel 38 (transonic) to 130 (Mach 4.0)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
High
Blow-down wind tunnel. Runtime 350 seconds. Single jack semi-flexible nozzle. 220-kW electric motor.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (31) 15 2784501, Fax : (31) 15 2787077, Web site: http://www.aero.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_facilities_fr.html.

TST-27 Transonic Wind Tunnel, Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Delft, The Netherlands.
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), 2.0 x 1.8 m .01 to 1.35 Mach
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1960/1997(new fan drive completed)
2.0 x 1.8 m Continuous Pressurized Wind Tunnel 9
(HST) Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
0.2 to 4.0 bar
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Ir. G.H. Hegen, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Anthony Fokkerweg 2, 1059 CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), 1.2 x 1.2 m 1.2 to 4.0 Mach
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1964/1973/1999
Supersonic Blow-Down Wind Tunnel (SST) 15
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1470 kPa
The supersonic wind tunnel DNW-SST is a blow-down facility fed by an air storage vessel containing 600 m³ of dry air at a maximum pressure of about 4,000 kPa.
Data Acquisition
A flexible top and bottom walls were provided in 1973. In 1999, a major overhaul was carried out.
User Fees
Contact Information
Ir. G.H. Hegen, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Anthony Fokkerweg 2, 1059 CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Supersonic Singapore
National University of Singapore, Department of 1.2 x 1.2 m 0.25 to 4 Mach
Mechanical Engineering, Singapore
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name early 2004
DSO Trisonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
US$30 million (construction cost) Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed operational as of December 2005.

Tunnel relocated from the United States. Refurbished and installed by Aero Systems Engineering (ASE) of St. Paul, Minnesota. A joint project of the Ministry of
Defense and the National University of Singapore. Can operate at subsonic, transonic, and supersonic speeds.
Data Acquisition
ASE 2000 control and data system

Supports the needs of Singapore Ministry of Defense in the area of aeronautics and to promote R&D activities in aerodynamics and aeronautics technology. The
facility is also used by staff members of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore to carry out research and teaching
activities related to aerodynamics.
User Fees
Contact Information
Chye-Lee Soo Leng, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Block EA #07-08, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117576.
Tel: (65) 6874 2212/6874 4498, Fax: (65) 6779 1459, Email: mpesec@nus.edu.sg, Web site: http://www.me.nus.edu.sg/mehighlights/windtunnel.html.

DSO Trisonic Wind Tunnel, National University in Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Singapore.

Europe and Asia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hypersonic Wind Tunnels

Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium H-3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 255
Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium Longshot Free-Piston Gun Wind Tunnel 257
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China FD-20 Hypervelocity Conventional Piston- 259
Gun Wind Tunnel
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China FD-22 Hypervelocity, Longshot Free 261
Piston-Gun Wind Tunnel
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 263
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China Hypersonic Propulsion Test Facility 265
(HPTF)
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China JF-10 Oxygen-Hydrogen Detonation- 267
Driven High Enthalpy Shock Wind Tunnel
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China JF-8 Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel Gun 269
Wind Tunnel
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Chalais-Meudon, R2Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 271
France
France
France
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac F4 Arc-Heated High-Enthalpy Hypersonic 277
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac, France Wind Tunnel
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S4Ma Blow-Down Hypersonic Wind 279
France Tunnel
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Hypersonic Ludweig Wind Tunnel (HLB) 281
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Europe and Asia

Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Intermittent Ludwig Tube Wind Tunnel 283
with Two Legs (RWG)
Italy Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy Scirocco Plasma Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 285
(PWT)
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.5 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 287
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel (HIEST) 289
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.44 m Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel 291
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Ramjet Engine Test Facility 295
Technology (IAT), Kakuda Space Center, Miyagi, Japan.
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HTFD) 297
The Netherlands
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Hypersonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 12 cm (diameter) 6 Mach
Temperature Range
H-3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 3 to 30
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
10 to 35 bar
Blow-down wind tunnel. The H-3 wind tunnel air is supplied from a pebble-bed, flow speed 1000 m/s, flow temperature –210 degrees C, flow pressure 0.007-0.025
bar.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/ar-dept/virtual/facility/h3/h3.html.

H-3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, Von Karman Institute (VKI), St. Genese, Belgium.
Hypersonic Belgium
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), 0.43 (nozzle exit diameter) 15 to 20 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Longshot Free-Piston Gun Wind Tunnel 5 to 15
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Free piston tunnel. A Mach-14 contoured nozzle of 0.43 m exit diameter and a 6° conical nozzle of 0.60 m exit diameter.
Data Acquisition
64 Channels, 50 KHz.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (32) 02 359 11, Fax: (32) 02 359 96 00, Email: chazot@vki.ac.be, Web site: http://www.vki.ac.be/ar-dept/virtual/facility/longshot/longshot.html.

Longshot Free-Piston Gun Wind Tunnel,

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI),
St. Genese, Belgium.
Hypersonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 0.4 to 0.5 (nozzle exit diameter) 8, 12, 15 Mach
Technology Corp (CASC) Date Built/Upgrade 900 to 1500°K
FD-20 Hypervelocity Conventional Piston-Gun 30 (max)
Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
6 to 100 Mpa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
30 to 750 bar
Nozzle exit diameter 0.4 – 0.5 m. Both driver gas and test gas are air and nitrogen. Run time 15 – 30 m/sec.
Data Acquisition

Pressure and force measurements of hypervelocity vehicle models, aerodynamic heat transfer tests, model free flight dynamic stability, stage separation, hot and cold
jet simulation, rocket firing, shock interaction, and flow visualization.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 10 68740603, Fax: (86) 10 68374758, Email: caaa@bia701.com, Web site: http://www.bia701.com/html/e_19_fd22_10.htm.

Hypersonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 0.42 to 0.5 (nozzle exit diameter) 15, 20, 25 Mach
Technology Corp (CASC) Date Built/Upgrade 1,500 to 3,000°K
FD-22 Hypervelocity, Longshot Free Piston-Gun 30 (max)
Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
100 Mpa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
4000 bar
Nozzle exit diameter 0.42 – 0.50 m. Both driver gas and test gas are nitrogen. Run time 20 – 40 m/sec. This institute also has several arc-heated wind tunnels ranging
from subsonic to hypersonic, but details are not provided.
Data Acquisition

Pressure and force measurements of hypervelocity vehicle models, aerodynamic heat transfer tests, model free flight dynamic stability, stage separation, hot and cold
jet simulation, rocket firing, shock interaction, and flow visualization.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 10 68740603, Fax: (86) 10 68374758, Email: caaa@bia701.com, Web site: http://www.bia701.com/html/e_19_fd22_10.htm.

Hypersonic China
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics 1.2 x 1.4 x 1.8 m (two lines) Line #1: 5 to 8 Mach; Line #2: 10 to 12 Mach
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Free jet, intermittent type. Nozzle exit 0.5 m diameter. Body of the tunnel is divided into two lines: plate heater in the 1st, pebble bed heater in the 2nd. Can perform
unconventional tests continuously for over 10 minutes. This wind tunnel is part of a three-tunnel hypersonic wind tunnel complex. The other two are research
tunnels, one of which has a Mach number range of 3.5 – 8.0, and the other of which has a Mach number range of 5.0 – 10.
Data Acquisition

Tests on: aircraft model aerodynamics, aircraft aero-dynamic heat transfer and coating scouring, engine jet flow, aero-optics. Measurement of: dynamic and
stagnation pressure on aircraft models, reentry body aerodynamic characteristics, control surface hinge moment characteristics. Simulations of: interstage separation,
thrust vector control, low-temperature ablation and particle erosion. Research on boundary layer transitions and shockwave-boundary layer interference.
User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (86) 10 68740603, Fax: (86) 10 68374758, Email: caaa@bia701.com, Web site: http://www.bia701.com/html/e_18_f500_04.htm.

Hypersonic China
Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas 5.6 Mach
Temperature Range
Hypersonic Propulsion Test Facility (HPTF)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
5 Mpa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Flow rate: 4 kg/sec for 10 seconds.
Data Acquisition

Model tests of scramjets.
User Fees
Contact Information
http://www.lhd.cn.

Hypersonic China
Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas 7 to 20 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade ip to 9,000°K
Facility Name Lab - 1994, wind tunnel - unknown.
JF-10 Oxygen-Hydrogen Detonation-Driven High
Enthalpy Shock Wind Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
800 bar
Data Acquisition

Experimental research on real gas effects of high temperature flows.
User Fees
Contact Information
http://www.lhd.cn.

Hypersonic China
Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas 0.8 m (nozzle exit diameter) 6.5 to 15 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1994
JF-8 Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel Gun Wind
Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Run time: 20 – 30 m/sec.
Data Acquisition

Experimental research on vehicle aerodynamic force and heat transfer of hypersonic flight.
User Fees
Contact Information
http://www.lhd.cn.

Hypersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research #1: 0.190 m; #2: 0.325 m (nozzle exit diameters) #1: 3, 4 Mach; #2: 5, 6, 7 Mach
Center, Chalais-Meudon, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade up to 700°K
R2Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
variable up to 80 bar
Long blow-downs from 10 to 60 seconds. Free test section. Variable stagnation temperature up to 700°K, Maximum flow rate: Qmax = 60 kg/s.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
morzenski@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/dafe-en/r1r2ch/index.html.

R2Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Chalais-Meudon, France.
Hypersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 0.350 m (nozzle exit diameter, free test section) 10 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade 1,100° K
R3Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
variable 12 to 120 bar
Long blow-downs: 10 seconds. Stagnation temperature: 1,100° K. Maximum flow rate: Qmax = 2 kg/s. Rapid initiation by three-way valve.
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
morzenski@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/dafe-en/r1r2ch/contacts.html.

Hypersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research 0.350 m (nozzle exit diameter, free test section) 10 Mach
Temperature Range
R5Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Unit Reynolds number in free flow: 167,000 m-1
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
2.5 bar (variable)
Hypersonic flows, continuous molecular regime. Blow-down duration: up to 90 seconds. Stagnation temperature: 1,100°K. Maximum flow rate .030 kg/s. Rapid
initiation by three-way valve.
Data Acquisition

Investigation of hypersonic flows in continuous molecular regime at very low Reynolds numbers (simulating fully laminar flows).
User Fees
Contact Information
Bruno Chanetz, Lucien Morzenski, Meudon Center, ONERA – DAFE 8, rue des Vertugadins 92190 MEUDON, France.
morzenski@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/dafe-en/r1r2ch/contacts.html.

Hypersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research #1: 670 mm; #2: 670 mm; #3: 430 mm; #4: 930 mm #1: 8 to 17 Mach; #2: 7 to 13 Mach; #3: 6 to 11 Mach; #4:
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac Center, Le Fauga (nozzle exit diameters) 9 to 21 Mach
Mauzac, France
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
F4 Arc-Heated High-Enthalpy Hypersonic Wind #1: 2; #2: 3; #3: 5; #4: 1
Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
500 bar
The usual blowdown duration obtained is 200 m/s. The test conditions can reach a total pressure of 500 bar together with an enthalpy of 16,5 mJ/kg (reduced H/RTo
= 200).
Data Acquisition
Data acquisition system with 72 channels. Each one has an analog conditioner, an amplifier filter, a 16 bit 50 kHz analog to digital converter and a buffer memory of
64000 samples.
Hypersonic spacecraft reentry.
User Fees
Contact Information
Jean-Claude Traineau (Director), Le Fauga-Mauzac Wind Tunnel Department (DSFM), ONERA - GMT, F-31410 NOE, Le Fauga-Mauzac, France.
Tel: (33) 5 61 56 63 01, Fax: (33) 5 61 56 63 63, E-mail: Jean-Claude.Traineau@onera.fr, Email: cfm@onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/table.html,
http://www.onera.fr/geographie-en/fauga-mauzac.html.

F4 Arc-Heated, High-Enthalpy Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center,
Le Fauga-Mauzac Center, Le Fauga-Mauzac, France.
Hypersonic France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research #1: 0.68 m; #2: 1 m; #3: 1 m (nozzle exit diameters, #1: 6.4 Mach, #2: 10 Mach, #3: M = 12 Mach
Center, Modane-Avrieux, France three interchangeable nozzles)
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1970
S4Ma Blow-Down Hypersonic Wind Tunnel #1: 1.7; #2: 0.9; #3: 0.35
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
up to 150 bar
Data Acquisition
48 to 72 analog channels, extension up to 120 channels.
User Fees
Contact Information
Jean-Paul Bècle (Director), Modane-Avrieux Wind Tunnel Department, Onera, PO Box 215, F-73500 Modane, France.
Tel: (33) 4 79 20 20 91, Fax: (33) 4 79 20 21 68, Email: becle @ onera.fr, Web site: http://www.onera.fr/gmt-en/wind-tunnels/s1ma-bis.html.

S4Ma Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France.
Hypersonic Germany
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at 0.5 m (diameter) 6.0 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Hypersonic Ludweig Wind Tunnel (HLB) 3 to 20
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Presumed active as of November 2005. 10 runs
3 to 30 bar
every hour
Generates an intermittent Ma=6 air flow for unit Reynolds numbers up to 20 million. The test section size allows to test models of about 0.2 m length.
Data Acquisition
Instrumentation includes schlieren, infrared thermography, and pressure gauges.
User Fees
Contact Information
Prof. Dr.-Ing R. Radespiel, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut für Strömungsmechanik (ISM), Bienroder Weg, 338106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Tel: (49) 531 391 2971, Fax: (49) 531 391 5952, Email: ism@tu-braunschweig.de, Web site: http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ism/institut/wkanlagen/hlb.

Hypersonic Ludweig Wind Tunnel (HLB), Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University,
Institute for Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Braunschweig, Germany.

Hypersonic Germany
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, #1: 0.5 x 0.5 m, #2: 0.5 m (diameter) #1: 2.9 to 4.65 Mach; #2: 5.0 to 6.9 Mach
Germany
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade #1: 300°K (max); #2: 700 °K (max)
Facility Name 1968
Intermittent Ludwig Tube Wind Tunnel with Two #1: 3.5; #2: 2.2
Legs (RWG) Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Intermittent Ludwieg tube with two legs (t = 0.4 sec). Reynolds numbers represent flight altitudes from 10 to 50 km. The RWG has two 80 m long storage tubes (A
and B), which are connected by a fast-action valve and exchangeable supersonic nozzles to the test section.
Data Acquisition

Space vehicle and missile research and development (for example, HERMES, Sänger, ARD, CRV, and X-38).
User Fees
Contact Information
Dr.-Ing. K.-W. Bock, German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Bunsenstrasse, 10, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.

Intermittent Ludwieg Tube with two legs (RWG),German-Dutch Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany.
Hypersonic Italy
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, 2 m (diameter) 12 Mach
Italy
Temperature Range
Scirocco Plasma Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (PWT)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Hypersonic, thermo-structural. The Scirocco facility is a plasma hypersonic wind tunnel, based on the electric arc heater, with a maximum power of 70 MW .
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

Scirocco Plasma Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (PWT), Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy.
Hypersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 0.5 m (nozzle exit diameter) 5, 7, 9, 11 Mach
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1965
0.5 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1 to 1.85 Mpa
Built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Intermittent blowdown, vacuum suction type wind tunnel. Free jet type test section. Two runs at 60 second duration each. Two
interchangeable 18 m³ air sources at 19.7 MPa each. Two 1150 m³ vacuum tanks. Two 6500 m³/hour air blowers.
Data Acquisition

User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (81) 3 422 40 3000, Fax: (81) 3 422 40 3281, Email (Director): shigemi.masashi@jaxa.jp, Email: wintec@chofu.jaxa.jp, Web site:

(Schematic of the 1.27 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and the 0.5 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel)
Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Aerospace
Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan.
1. ø 127 cm Nozzle 16. Subsonic Diffuser

2. Settling Chamber 17. Cooler
3. Shut-Off Valve 18. ø 16.4 m Vacuum Tank 2300 m
4. High Temperature High Pressure Pipe 19. High Pressure Air Storage Tank (20 MPa) 36
5. Vapor Heater m
6. Measurement Room 20. ø 13 m Vacuum Tank 1150 m
7. Smokestack 21. Muffler
8. Main Burner 22. Cooler
9. Preheating Burner 23. Cooling Water System
10. Shut-Off Valve 24. ø 13 m Vacuum Tank 1150 m
12. Control Room 26. Air Exhaust
13. Supersonic Diffuser 27. Supersonic Diffuser
14. Air Compressor 28. Cooling Water Pump
15. Air Exhaust 29. Schlieren Device

Hypersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 1.2 m (nozzle exit diameter) 12 to 20 Mach (4 to 7 km/s)
Date Built/Upgrade 10,000°K (max)
Facility Name 1999
High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel (HIEST)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
150 Mpa (max)
Compression tube: length 42 m, diameter 0.6 m. Shock tube: length 17 m, diameter 0.18 m. Secondary air reservoir capacity: 7.7 m³. Piston weight: 300 – 720 kg.
Slot diameter: 0.024 – 0.05 m. Test time: over 2 microseconds. Driver gas: helium, helium/argon. Driver gas temperature: maximum 4,000°K. World’s largest free-
piston shock wind tunnel. Maximum stagnation enthalpy: 25 MJ/kg.
Data Acquisition
250 channels. Optical measurement system: schlieren device and double exposure hologram interferometer.

Simulation of the aerothermodynamic flow around reentry space vehicles and combustion characteristics of scramjet engines.
User Fees
Contact Information
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda Space Center, 1 Koganezawa, Kimigaya, Kakuda-shi, Miyagi 981
1525, Japan.
Tel: (81) 224 68 3111, Fax: (81) 224 68 2860, Web site: http://www.jaxa.jp/about/centers/kspc/index_e.html.

High-Enthalpy Shock Wind Tunnel (HIEST), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),
Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda Space Center, Miyagi, Japan.
Hypersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 0.44 m (nozzle exit diameter) 10, 12 Mach
Date Built/Upgrade 1,400°K (continuous operation)
0.44 m Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
0.5 to 4 Mpa
Diaphragm-less shock wind tunnel when under continuous operation. Two-stage compression shock wind tunnel when operating at high enthalpy. Test section: free
jet type. Air flow duration 40 milliseconds when under continuous operation, 2 milliseconds at high enthalpy 8 MJ/kg.
Data Acquisition

User Fees
Contact Information
Tel: (81) 3 422 40 3000, Fax: (81) 3 422 40 3281, Email (Director): shigemi.masashi@jaxa.jp, Email: wintec@chofu.jaxa.jp, Web site:

Schematic of the 0.44 m Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel
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1. Double Diaphragm Section (Diaphragmless) 1
2. 2nd Diaphragm (2nd Rapid Open-Shut Valve)
3. Shock Tube (Low Pressure Tube)
4. Hypersonic Nozzle 2 5
5. Schlieren Device (Built-in) 3 6
6. Air Exhaust
7. Air Compressor
8. Dehumidifier 7
9. Air Storage Tanks
10. Vacuum Tank 16
11. Operating Panel 15
12. Test Section
13. Data Processing Section
14. 1st Rapid Open-Shut Valve 14
15. High Pressure Tube
16. Compression Tube (Low Pressure Tube) 8
13
Upper Right Box
High Pressure Tube (Interior Diameter 31.8 cm) Main Items
Compressor Tube (Interior Diameter 7.4 cm) 10 9
Low Pressure Tube (Interior Diameter 7.4 cm) 12
Main Items 11
Mach Number: 10,12
Nozzle Exit Diameter: 440 mm
Air Flow Duration: Sustained Operation When in the
~ 2 milliseconds (High Enthalpy
QUIC Mode
Operation)
~ 40 milliseconds (Sustained
Operation)
Stagnation Point Enthalpy: ~ 8 MJ/kg
0.44m Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT),
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan.

Hypersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 1.27 m (nozzle exit diameter) 10 Mach
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1994
1.27 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
1 to 8.5 Mpa
Built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Intermittent blowdown, vacuum suction type wind tunnel. Free jet type test section.
Data Acquisition

User Fees
Contact Information

(Schematic of the 1.27 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and the 0.5 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel)
Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Aerospace
Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan.

2. Settling Chamber 17. Cooler
3. Shut-Off Valve 18. ø 16.4 m Vacuum Tank 2300 m
4. High Temperature High Pressure Pipe 19. High Pressure Air Storage Tank (20 MPa) 36
5. Vapor Heater m
6. Measurement Room 20. ø 13 m Vacuum Tank 1150 m
7. Smokestack 21. Muffler
8. Main Burner 22. Cooler
9. Preheating Burner 23. Cooling Water System
10. Shut-Off Valve 24. ø 13 m Vacuum Tank 1150 m
12. Control Room 26. Air Exhaust
13. Supersonic Diffuser 27. Supersonic Diffuser
14. Air Compressor 28. Cooling Water Pump
15. Air Exhaust 29. Schlieren Device

Hypersonic Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Nozzle size: 0.51 x 0.51 m free jet. 4, 6, 8 Mach
Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda
Space Center, Miyagi, Japan.
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1993
Ramjet Engine Test Facility 5
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
10.3 Mpa (Mach 8); 5 Mpa (Mach 6); 0.87 Mpa (Mach 4)
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
575 kPa (Mach 8); 2.6 kPa (Mach 6); 5.5 kPa (Mach 4)
Maximum test duration: 30 seconds (Mach 8), 60 seconds (Mach 6), 60 seconds (Mach 4). Air flow rate: 7.92 kg/sec (Mach 8), 29 kg/sec (Mach 6), 42 kg/sec (Mach
4).
Data Acquisition

Simulation of flight conditions for ramjet and scramjet engines at Mach 4, 6, and 8, at altitudes of 20, 25, and 35 km, respectively.
User Fees
Contact Information
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda Space Center, 1 Koganezawa, Kimigaya, Kakuda-shi, Miyagi 981
1525, Japan.
Tel: (81) 224 68 3111, Fax: (81) 224 68 2860, Email: koho@chofu.jaxa.jp, Web site: http://www.iat.jaxa.jp/kspc/eng/tf/rjtf.htm.

Ramjet Engine Test Facility, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda
Space Center, Japan.
Hypersonic Netherlands
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), 350 mm (diameter) 6 to 11 Mach
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 1995
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HTFD)
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Run time 0.07-0.13 seconds.
Data Acquisition

Problems in hypersonic flight: the investigation of the external flow field around an ESA test model of a hyperboloid-flare, using Digital Electro-Optical
Interferometry (currently under development as STW project) and flow research on the influence of the entropy-layer on boundary layer transition.
User Fees
Contact Information
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands.
Tel: (31) 15 2784501, Fax: (31) 15 2787077, Web site: http://www.aero.lr.tudelft.nl/ae_facilities_fr.html.

Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HTFD), Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT),

High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands.

Europe and Asia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Unknown Speed

China Beijing (Beihang) University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Fluid Four low-speed wind tunnels 299
Mechanics Laboratory, Beijing, China Two high-speed wind tunnels
Three 1.5-m low-turbulence wind tunnel
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, NF-6 High Speed Continuous Pressurized 301
China Wind Tunnel
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, Small-Scale Adaptive-Wall Research Wind 303
China Tunnel
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, Small-Scale Low-Vortex Research Wind 305
China Tunnel
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute Combustion Wind Tunnel 307
1
Unknown China
Beijing (Beihang) University of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (BUAA), Fluid Mechanics
Laboratory, Beijing, China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Facility Name 2000
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory has a total area of 2300 square meters. It consists of four low-speed wind tunnels, two high-speed wind tunnels, three 1.5-m low-
turbulence wind tunnels, and Asia’s largest demonstration circulating multi-purpose water tunnel.
Data Acquisition

Nonsteady flow and vortex motion, turbulence and transition, hypersonic flow and advanced aerodynamic configuration, computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
User Fees
Contact Information
Professor Sun Mao (Director), Key Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics of the the Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 37 Xueyuan
Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
Tel: (86) 10 82317685/82317114, Web site: http://www.buaa.edu.cn.

Unknown China
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU,
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
NF-6 High Speed Continuous Pressurized Wind 15
Tunnel Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

China’s first high-speed continuous pressurized wind tunnel.
Data Acquisition
Construction is underway of a lower temperature facility with Reynolds numbers that will reach 23, fully covering the range of the Reynolds numbers for rotary
wings in actual flight.
User Fees
Contact Information
Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Aeronautics, State Key Laboratory for Airfoil and Cascade Aerodynamics, No.127 West Youyi Road, Xi’an City
710072, Shaanxi Province, China.
Tel: 011-86-29-8492222, Fax: 011-29-8491000, Web site: http://www.nwpu.edu.cn.

Unknown China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Small-Scale Adaptive-Wall Research Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information

Unknown China
Temperature Range
Date Built/Upgrade
Small-Scale Low-Vortex Research Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure
Data Acquisition
User Fees
Contact Information
Shaanxi Province,710072, China.

Unknown Japan
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research 3.5 m (diameter), 12 m (long)
Japan
Temperature Range
Facility Name 1997
Combustion Wind Tunnel
Cost
Dynamic Pressure
0.01 to 3.8 kPa
Operational Status
Stagnation Pressure

Air flow rate: 150 kg/sec. Pitch angle and yaw angle in the semi-free jet configuration: 0° ~ +15°, -5° ~ +5°, respectively. Simulation of flight conditions at 0 –
80,000 ft.; testing of ramjet engines in direct-connect (DC) or semi-free jet (SFJ) configurations; testing of solid fuel propellants consecutively in the booster phase,
the transient separation phase, and the subsequent ramjet phase.
Data Acquisition

Ramjet engine flight conditions and engine performance.
User Fees
Contact Information
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INDEX OF COMPANIES
INDEX BY COUNTRY
INDEX OF FACILITIES
INDEX OF SCHEMATICS
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INDEX OF COMPANIES
Installation Name Pages

Aero-Gas Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory (LAGG), Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), National 89
Center for Research, Science and Technology (PUSPIPTEK), Serpong, Indonesia
Aerospace Science and Technology Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China 161
Agency for Defense and Development (ADD), Wind Tunnel Testing Laboratory, Taejo, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 101
Airbus, New Filton House, Bristol, England. 37
Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England 171, 173,
213, 215
BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England 39
Beijing (Beihang) University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Beijing, China 299
Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics (BIA) 9, 163,
191, 193,
259, 261,
263
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Braunschweig, Germany 71, 73,
75, 281
CEPr and ONERA, Center for Engine Testing (CEPr), Saclay, France 63
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 9, 163,
191, 193,
259, 261,
263
China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China 11, 13,
15, 165,
167, 195
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Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China 17, 19,
21, 169,
197, 199,
201
Chosun University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Gwangju, Republic of Korea 103
Chunbuk National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Jeonju, Republic of Korea 105, 107
Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Rotating Fluids and Vortex Dynamics Lab, Taiwan, China 23
Chungnam National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 109
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands 145, 147,
243, 245,
247, 297
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, England 41, 43,
45, 47
European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), Cologne, Germany 177
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England 49, 51,
53
Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England 55, 57,
59, 217
French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France 65, 219
Galleria del Vento, Milan Polytechnic University (GVPM), Milan, Italy 91
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 249, 251
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Braunschweig, Germany 77
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany 79, 179,
181, 283
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, Germany 81
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord, The Netherlands 149, 151
Hanyang University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Republic of Korea 111
Inha University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Incheon, Republic of Korea 113
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Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 83, 85
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy 93, 183,
285
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda Space Center, Miyagi, Japan. 295
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind 95, 97,
Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan 227, 229,
231, 287,
289,
291, 293
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI), Tachikawa, Japan 233, 235,
237
Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center, Kawada Industries Inc., Tochigi, Japan 99
Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, China 203, 205,
265, 267,
269
Konkuk University, Department of Aerospace, Seoul, Korea 115
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Aeronautics Department, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 117
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Dae-Jeon, Republic of Korea 119, 121,
123
Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Choongbuk, Republic of Korea 125, 127
Kyeongsang National University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jinjoo, Republic of Korea 129
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Kobe, Japan 239, 241
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, Tiangsu Province, China 25, 207,
209
National University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Singapore 253
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China 27, 213,
301, 303,
305
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ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Chalais-Meudon, France 271, 273,
275
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fluid Mechanics and Energetics Branch, Meudon Center, Meudon, France 221
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac Center, Le Fauga Mauzac, France 67, 69,
277
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France 223, 225,
279
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea 131, 133
Pusan National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan, Republic of Korea 135
QinetiQ, Farnborough, England 61
Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 137
Seoul National University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Republic of Korea 139
701st Institute of the China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp (CASC) 9, 163,
191, 193,
259, 261,
263
State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Beijing University, Beijing, China 29, 31,
33, 35
Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden 151, 185
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 87
Technological University of Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Laboratory, Johor, Malaysia 143
Ulsan University, Ulsan, Republic of Korea 141
University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland 153, 155,
157
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 1, 3, 5, 7,
187, 189,
255, 257
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INDEX BY COUNTRY

Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium Adaptive Wall Low Speed Wind Tunnel T-3 1
Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium CWT-1 Cold Wind Tunnel 3
Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium H-3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 255
Belgium Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium Longshot Free-Piston Gun Wind Tunnel 257
China Aerospace Science and Technology Research Center, National Cheng Kung Transonic Wind Tunnel 161
University, Taiwan, China
China Beijing (Beihang) University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Four low speed, two high speed, 3 1.5-m low 299
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Beijing, China turbulence Wind Tunnels
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China FD-20 Hypervelocity Conventional Piston- 259
AKA: Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics (BIA) or 701st Institute of the Gun Wind Tunnel
China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp (CASC)
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China FD-22 Hypervelocity, Longshot Free Piston- 261
Gun Wind Tunnel
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 263
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Low Speed Wind Tunnel 9
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Supersonic Wind Tunnel 191
China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Transonic Wind Tunnel 163
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China China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China BIA Trisonic Wind Tunnel FD-06 193
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 1.2 x 1.2 m Trisonic Wind Tunnel 195
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 2.4 m Transonic Wind Tunnel 165
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 11
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Large-Scale Vertical Wind Tunnel 13
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Low Speed Wind Tunnel 15
China China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Low Temperature Compressed Air Transonic 167
Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China Wind Tunnel
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), FL-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 197
Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), FL-3 High-Speed Air-Inlet Test Platform 169
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), FL-5 Low Speed Wind Tunnel 17
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), FL-8 Low Speed Wind Tunnel 19
China Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), FL-9 Low Speed Continuous Pressurized 21
Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China Wind Tunnel
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China Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Rotating Fluids and Vortex Open Loop Low Speed Wind Tunnel 23
Dynamics Lab, Taiwan, China
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, Directly Coupled Supersonic Combustion 203
China Test Platform
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, Hypersonic Propulsion Test Facility (HPTF) 265
China
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, JF-10 Oxygen-Hydrogen Detonation-Driven 267
China High Enthalpy Shock Wind Tunnel
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, JF-8 Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel Gun 269
China Wind Tunnel
China Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, Tube/Shock Supersonic Wind Tunnel 205
China
China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, High Speed Wind Tunnel 207
China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, Large-Scale Dual-Test Section Low Speed 25
Tiangsu Province, China Wind Tunnel
China Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, Supersonic Wind Tunnel 209
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi NF-3 Low Speed Airfoil Wind Tunnel 27
Province, China
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi NF-6 High Speed Continuous Pressurized 301
Province, China Wind Tunnel
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Small-Scale Adaptive-Wall Research Wind 303
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Small-Scale High-Speed Research Wind 213
China Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi Small-Scale Low-Vortex Research Wind 305
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China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 1 29
Beijing University, Beijing, China
China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 2 31
China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Large-Scale Low Speed Wind Tunnel 33
China State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel 35
England Airbus, New Filton House, Bristol, England. Airbus Filton Low Speed Wind Tunnel 37
Facility
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Pilot Wind Tunnel Z4T 213
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Supersonic Wind Tunnel (SWT) 215
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) 171
England Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Two-Dimensional (2D) Wind Tunnel 173
England BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England Filton 12 x 10 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel 39
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 41
England.
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel 43
England.
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Open Jet Wind Tunnel 45
England.
England Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, Open Return Low Speed Wind Tunnels (2) 47
England.
England Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England No. 1 24-ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 49
England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 0.21 x 0.15 m Transonic/Supersonic Wind 217
England Tunnel
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England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 0.5 x 0.5 m Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel 55
England
England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 1.35 x 0.95 m Blow-down Wind Tunnel 57
England
England Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, AVRO 9 x 7 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel 59
England
England QinetiQ, Farnborough, England 5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 61
France CEPr and ONERA, Center for Engine Testing (CEPr), Saclay, France CEPRA 19 Anechoic Wind Tunnel 63
France French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France S20 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 65
France French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France Supersonic Wind Tunnel S30 219
France
France
France
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fluid Mechanics R1Ch Supersonic Wind Tunnel 221
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac F1 Continuous Pressurized Subsonic Wind 67
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac F2 Continuous Atmospheric Subsonic Wind 69
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac F4 Arc-Heated High-Enthalpy Hypersonic 277
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac, France Wind Tunnel
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S1Ma Continuous Atmospheric 175
France Sub/Transonic Wind Tunnel
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S2Ma Continuous Pressurized 223
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France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S3Ma Blow-down Pressurized 225
France ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, S4Ma Blow-Down Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 279
France
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Hypersonic Ludweig Wind Tunnel (HLB) 281
Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Braunschweig, Germany
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Low Noise Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LNB) 71
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Low Speed Wind Tunnel (MUB) 73
Germany Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Small Wind Tunnel Braunschweig (KWB) 75
Germany European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), Cologne, Germany 2 x 2.4 m Cryogenic Wind Tunnel 177
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Braunschweig, Germany Low Speed Continuous Atmospheric Wind 77
Tunnel (NWB)
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany High-Pressure Continuous Subsonic Wind 79
Tunnel (HDG)
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Intermittent Ludwig Tube Wind Tunnel with 283
Two Legs (RWG)
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Transonic Wind Tunnel (KRG) 179
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWG) 181
Germany German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, Germany Cryogenic Continuous Wind Tunnel (KKK) 81
Germany Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Laminar Wind Tunnel (LWK) 83
Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Germany Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Model Wind Tunnel 85
Germany Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2.2 x 2.9 m Subsonic Wind Tunnel 87
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Indonesia Aero-Gas Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory (LAGG), Agency for Indonesia Low Speed Wind Tunnel (ILST) 89
Italy Galleria del Vento, Milan Polytechnic University (GVPM), Milan, Italy GVPM Subsonic Wind Tunnel 91
Italy Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy Icing Wind Tunnel (IWT) 93
Italy Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy PT-1 Transonic Wind Tunnel 183
Italy Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy Scirocco Plasma Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 285
(PWT)
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.2 x 0.2 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel 227
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.44 m Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel 291
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 0.8 x 0.45 m High Reynolds Number 229
Technology (IAT), Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Transonic Wind Tunnel
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 1 x 1 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel 231
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 2 x 2 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 95
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Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 6.5 x 5.5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 97
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel (HIEST) 289
Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Ramjet Engine Test Facility 295
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Combustion Wind Tunnel 233
Institute (TRDI), Tachikawa, Japan
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development High Altitude Engine Test Facility (ATF) 235
Japan Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Trisonic Wind Tunnel 237
Japan Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center, Kawada Industries Inc., Tochigi, Kawada Wind Tunnel 99
Japan
Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI 60 cm Trisonic Wind Tunnel 239
Kobe), Kobe, Japan
Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Continuous Circulation Cryogenic Wind 241
Kobe), Kobe, Japan Tunnel
Korea Agency for Defense and Development (ADD), Wind Tunnel Testing Low Speed Wind Tunnel 101
(South) Laboratory, Taejo, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Korea Chosun University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Gwangju, Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel 103
Korea Chunbuk National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 0.6 m Wind Tunnel 105
(South) Jeonju, Republic of Korea
Korea Chunbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel 107
(South)
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Europe and Asia

Korea Chungnam National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Aero-Acoustic Wind Tunnel 109
(South) Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Korea Hanyang University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel 111
Korea Inha University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Incheon, Republic Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel 113
(South) of Korea
Korea Konkuk University, Department of Aerospace, Seoul, Korea Multi-Purpose Wind Tunnel 115
(South)
Korea Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Aeronautics Low Turbulence Open Circuit Wind Tunnel 117
(South) Department, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Korea Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Dae-Jeon, Republic of Korea KARI Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT) 123
(South)
Korea Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea 4 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 119
(South)
Korea Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea KARI 1 m Wind Tunnel 121
(South)
Korea Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel KAFA Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT) 125
Korea Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel 127
Korea Kyeongsang National University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Multi-Purpose Small Wind Tunnel 129
(South) Engineering, Jinjoo, Republic of Korea
Korea Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea Medium-Sized Subsonic Wind Tunnel 131
(South)
Korea Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel 133
(South)
Korea Pusan National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan, Subsonic Wind Tunnel 135
9
Europe and Asia

Korea Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel 137
(South)
Korea Seoul National University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel 139
Korea Ulsan University, Ulsan, Republic of Korea Multi-Purpose Wind/Water Tunnel 141
(South)
Malaysia Technological University of Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UTM Low Speed Wind Tunnel (UTM-LST) 143
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Delft, The Netherlands Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel 145
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HTFD) 297
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, ST-15 Wind Tunnel 243
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, ST-3 Vacuum Wind Tunnel 245
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, TST-27 Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel 247
Netherlands Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Low Speed Laboratory, Subsonic Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel 147
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2.0 x 1.8 m Continuous Pressurized Wind 249
Tunnel (HST)
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Supersonic Blow-Down Wind Tunnel (SST) 251
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord, Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LLF) 149
The Netherlands
Netherlands German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 151
Emmeloord,The Netherlands
Scotland University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, 1.15 x 0.95 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 153
Scotland
10
Europe and Asia

Scotland University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, Argyll Wind Tunnel 155
Scotland
Scotland University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, Handley-Page Wind Tunnel 157
Scotland
Singapore National University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, DSO Trisonic Wind Tunnel 253
Singapore
Sweden Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden LT1 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 151
Sweden Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel 185
11
Europe and Asia
INDEX OF FACILITIES
Facility Name Installation Name Page

0.2 x 0.2 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 227
0.21 x 0.15 m Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 217
England
0.44 m Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 291
0.5 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 287
0.5 x 0.5 m Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 55
England
0.6 m Wind Tunnel Chunbuk National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 105
Jeonju, Republic of Korea
0.8 x 0.45 m High Reynolds Number Transonic Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 229
1 x 1 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 231
1.15 x 0.95 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, 153
Scotland
1.2 x 1.2 m Trisonic Wind Tunnel China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 195
1.27 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 293
1
Europe and Asia

1.35 x 0.95 m Blow-down Wind Tunnel Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 57
England
2 x 2 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 95
2 x 2.4 m Cryogenic Wind Tunnel European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), Cologne, Germany 177
2.0 x 1.8 m Continuous Pressurized Wind Tunnel (HST) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 249
2.2 x 2.9 m Subsonic Wind Tunnel Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 87
2.4 m Transonic Wind Tunnel China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 165
4 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea 119
5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel QinetiQ, Farnborough, England 61
6.5 x 5.5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 97
60 cm Trisonic Wind Tunnel Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI 239
Kobe), Kobe, Japan
Adaptive Wall Low Speed Wind Tunnel T-3 Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 1
Aero-Acoustic Wind Tunnel Chungnam National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 109
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel Inha University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Incheon, Republic 113
of Korea
Aerospace Engineering Wind Tunnel Seoul National University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, 139
Republic of Korea
Airbus Filton Low Speed Wind Tunnel Facility Airbus, New Filton House, Bristol, England. 37
Argyll Wind Tunnel University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, 155
Scotland
AVRO 9 x 7 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, 59
2
Europe and Asia

England
BIA Trisonic Wind Tunnel FD-06 China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 193
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Delft, The Netherlands 145
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 1 State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), 29
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel No. 2 State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), 31
CEPRA 19 Anechoic Wind Tunnel CEPr and ONERA, Center for Engine Testing (CEPr), Saclay, France 63
Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel Chosun University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Gwangju, 103
Republic of Korea
Closed-Circuit Subsonic Wind Tunnel Chunbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea 107
Combustion Wind Tunnel Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development 233
Continuous Circulation Cryogenic Wind Tunnel Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI 241
Kobe), Kobe, Japan
Cryogenic Continuous Wind Tunnel (KKK) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, Germany 81
CWT-1 Cold Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 3
Directly Coupled Supersonic Combustion Test Platform Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, 203
China
DSO Trisonic Wind Tunnel National University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 253
Singapore
F1 Continuous Pressurized Subsonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac 67
Center, Le Fauga Mauzac, France
F2 Continuous Atmospheric Subsonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac 69
F4 Arc-Heated High-Enthalpy Hypersonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac 277
3
Europe and Asia

FD-20 Hypervelocity Conventional Piston-Gun Wind Tunnel China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 259
AKA: Beijing Institute of Aerodynamics (BIA) or 701st Institute of the
China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp (CASC)
FD-22 Hypervelocity, Longshot Free Piston-Gun Wind Tunnel China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 261
Filton 12 x 10 ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England 39
FL-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), 197
FL-3 High-Speed Air-Inlet Test Platform Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), 169
FL-5 Low Speed Wind Tunnel Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), 17
FL-8 Low Speed Wind Tunnel Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), 19
FL-9 Low Speed Continuous Pressurized Wind Tunnel Chinese Aerodynamics Research Institute of Aeronautics (CARIA), 21
Four low speed, two high speed, 3 1.5-m low turbulence Wind Tunnels Beijing (Beihang) University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), 299
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Beijing, China
GVPM Subsonic Wind Tunnel Galleria del Vento, Milan Polytechnic University (GVPM), Milan, Italy 91
H-3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 255
Handley-Page Wind Tunnel University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, 157
Scotland
High Altitude Engine Test Facility (ATF) Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development 235
High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel (HIEST) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 289
4
Europe and Asia

High Speed Wind Tunnel Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, 207
High-Pressure Continuous Subsonic Wind Tunnel (HDG) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany 79
Hypersonic Ludweig Wind Tunnel (HLB) Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for 281
Hypersonic Propulsion Test Facility (HPTF) Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, 265
China
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 263
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HTFD) Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, 297
Icing Wind Tunnel (IWT) Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy 93
Indonesia Low Speed Wind Tunnel (ILST) Aero-Gas Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory (LAGG), Agency for 89
Intermittent Ludwig Tube Wind Tunnel with Two Legs (RWG) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany 283
JF-10 Oxygen-Hydrogen Detonation-Driven High Enthalpy Shock Wind Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, 267
Tunnel China
JF-8 Hypersonic Shock Wind Tunnel Gun Wind Tunnel Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, 269
China
KAFA Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT) Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel 125
Laboratory, Choongbuk, Republic of Korea
KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel 127
Laboratory, Choongbuk, Republic of Korea
KARI 1 m Wind Tunnel Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea 121
KARI Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT) Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Dae-Jeon, Republic of Korea 123
5
Europe and Asia

Kawada Wind Tunnel Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center, Kawada Industries Inc., Tochigi, 99
Japan
L-1A Low Speed Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 5
L-2A Low Speed Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 7
Laminar Wind Tunnel (LWK) Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of 83
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 11
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, 41
England.
Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LLF) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord, 149
The Netherlands
Large-Scale Dual-Test Section Low Speed Wind Tunnel Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, 25
Large-Scale Low Speed Wind Tunnel State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), 33
Large-Scale Vertical Wind Tunnel China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 13
Longshot Free-Piston Gun Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 257
Low Noise Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LNB) Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for 71
Low Speed Continuous Atmospheric Wind Tunnel (NWB) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Braunschweig, Germany 77
Low Speed Wind Tunnel Agency for Defense and Development (ADD), Wind Tunnel Testing 101
Laboratory, Taejo, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Low Speed Wind Tunnel China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 9
Low Speed Wind Tunnel China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 15
6
Europe and Asia

Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, 151
Emmeloord,The Netherlands
Low Speed Wind Tunnel (MUB) Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for 73
Low Temperature Compressed Air Transonic Wind Tunnel China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), 167
Low Turbulence Open Circuit Wind Tunnel Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Aeronautics 117
Department, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, 43
England.
Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS), 35
LT1 Subsonic Wind Tunnel Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden 151
Medium-Sized Subsonic Wind Tunnel Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea 131
Model Wind Tunnel Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of 85
Multi-Purpose Small Wind Tunnel Kyeongsang National University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace 129
Engineering, Jinjoo, Republic of Korea
Multi-Purpose Wind Tunnel Konkuk University, Department of Aerospace, Seoul, Korea 115
Multi-Purpose Wind/Water Tunnel Ulsan University, Ulsan, Republic of Korea 141
NF-3 Low Speed Airfoil Wind Tunnel Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi 27
Province, China
NF-6 High Speed Continuous Pressurized Wind Tunnel Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi 301
Province, China
No. 1 24-ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England 49
No. 2 Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England 51
No. 3 Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England 53
Open Jet Wind Tunnel Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, 45
7
Europe and Asia

England.
Open Loop Low Speed Wind Tunnel Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Rotating Fluids and Vortex 23
Dynamics Lab, Taiwan, China
Open Return Low Speed Wind Tunnels (2) Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, 47
England.
Pilot Wind Tunnel Z4T Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England 213
PT-1 Transonic Wind Tunnel Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy 183
R1Ch Supersonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fluid Mechanics 221
R2Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Chalais-Meudon, 271
France
France
France
Ramjet Engine Test Facility Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace 295
S-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 187
S1Ma Continuous Atmospheric Sub/Transonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, 175
France
S20 Subsonic Wind Tunnel French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France 65
S2Ma Continuous Pressurized Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, 223
France
S3Ma Blow-down Pressurized Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, 225
France
S-4 Supersonic Wind Tunnel Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium 189
S4Ma Blow-Down Hypersonic Wind Tunnel ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, 279
France
8
Europe and Asia

Scirocco Plasma Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (PWT) Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy 285
Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel Hanyang University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, 111
Republic of Korea
Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea 133
Small Subsonic Wind Tunnel Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 137
Small Wind Tunnel Braunschweig (KWB) Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for 75
Small-Scale Adaptive-Wall Research Wind Tunnel Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi 303
Province, China
Small-Scale High-Speed Research Wind Tunnel Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi 213
Province, China
Small-Scale Low-Vortex Research Wind Tunnel Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU, NPU), Xi’an, Shaanxi 305
Province, China
ST-15 Wind Tunnel Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, 243
ST-3 Vacuum Wind Tunnel Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, 245
Subsonic Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), Low Speed Laboratory, 147
Subsonic Wind Tunnel Pusan National University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan, 135
Republic of Korea
Supersonic Blow-Down Wind Tunnel (SST) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 251
Supersonic Wind Tunnel China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 191
Supersonic Wind Tunnel Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, 209
Supersonic Wind Tunnel (SWT) Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England 215
Supersonic Wind Tunnel S30 French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France 219
9
Europe and Asia

T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden 185
Transonic Wind Tunnel Aerospace Science and Technology Research Center, National Cheng Kung 161
University, Taiwan, China
Transonic Wind Tunnel China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China 163
Transonic Wind Tunnel (KRG) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany 179
Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWG) German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany 181
Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England 171
Trisonic Wind Tunnel Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development 237
TST-27 Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, 247
Tube/Shock Supersonic Wind Tunnel Key Laboratory of High-Temperature Gas Dynamics (LHD), Beijing, 205
China
Two-Dimensional (2D) Wind Tunnel Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England 173
UTM Low Speed Wind Tunnel (UTM-LST) Technological University of Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, 143
10
Europe and Asia
INDEX OF SCHEMATICS
Installation Name Facility Name Page

Aero-Gas Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory (LAGG), Agency for Assessment and Application Indonesia Low Speed Wind Tunnel 90
of Technology (BPPT), National Center for Research, Science and Technology (PUSPIPTEK), (ILST)
Serpong, Indonesia
Aircraft Research Association Limited (ARA), Bedford, England Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWT) 172
BAE Systems Air Systems, Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England Filton 12 x 10 ft Low Speed Wind 40
Tunnel
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Hypersonic Ludweig Wind Tunnel 282
Braunschweig, Germany (HLB)
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Low Noise Low Speed Wind Tunnel 72
Braunschweig, Germany (LNB)
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Low Speed Wind Tunnel (MUB) 74
Braunschweig, Germany
Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University at Braunschweig, Institute for Fluid Mechanics (ISM), Small Wind Tunnel Braunschweig 76
Braunschweig, Germany (KWB)
CEPr and ONERA, Center for Engine Testing (CEPr), Saclay, France CEPRA 19 Anechoic Wind Tunnel 64
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China Transonic Wind Tunnel 164
China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), Beijing, China BIA Trisonic Wind Tunnel FD-06 194
China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang City, Sichuan 2.4 m Transonic Wind Tunnel 166
Province, China
China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center (CARDC), Mianyang City, Sichuan Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 12
Province, China
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HTFD) 298
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands ST-15 Wind Tunnel 244
Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands ST-3 Vacuum Wind Tunnel 246
1
Europe and Asia

Delft University of Technology (TUDELFT), High-Speed Laboratory, Delft, The Netherlands TST-27 Transonic/Supersonic Wind 248
Tunnel
European Transonic Wind Tunnel (ETW), Cologne, Germany 2 x 2.4 m Cryogenic Wind Tunnel 178
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England No. 1 24-ft Low Speed Wind Tunnel 50
(LST)
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England No. 2 Low Speed Wind Tunnel 52
(LST)
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST), Berkshire, England No. 3 Low Speed Wind Tunnel 54
(LST)
Flow Science Limited, Goldstein Research Laboratory, Manchester, England AVRO 9 x 7 ft Low Speed Wind 60
Tunnel
French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France S20 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 66
French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL), Saint Louis, France Supersonic Wind Tunnel S30 220
Galleria del Vento, Milan Polytechnic University (GVPM), Milan, Italy GVPM Subsonic Wind Tunnel 92
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Braunschweig, Germany Low Speed Continuous Atmospheric 78
Wind Tunnel (NWB)
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany High-Pressure Continuous Subsonic 80
Wind Tunnel (HDG)
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Intermittent Ludwig Tube Wind 284
Tunnel with Two Legs (RWG)
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Transonic Wind Tunnel (KRG) 180
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Göttingen, Germany Transonic Wind Tunnel (TWG) 182
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), Köln, Germany Cryogenic Continuous Wind Tunnel 82
(KKK)
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord, The Netherlands Large Low Speed Wind Tunnel 150
(LLF)
German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW), NOP Business Unit, Emmeloord,The Netherlands Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LST) 152
Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Laminar Wind Tunnel (LWK) 84
2
Europe and Asia

Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Model Wind Tunnel 86
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy Icing Wind Tunnel (IWT) 94
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy PT-1 Transonic Wind Tunnel 184
Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Capua, Italy Scirocco Plasma Hypersonic Wind 286
Tunnel (PWT)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), 0.44 m Hypersonic Shock Wind 292
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan Tunnel
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), 0.5 m Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 288
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), 0.8 x 0.45 m High Reynolds 230
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan Number Transonic Wind Tunnel
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), 1 x 1 m Supersonic Wind Tunnel 232
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), 6.5 x 5.5 m Low Speed Wind 98
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan Tunnel
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel 290
Aerospace Research Center (ARC), Wind Tunnel Technology Center (WINTEC), Tokyo, Japan (HIEST)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT), Kakuda Ramjet Engine Test Facility 296
Space Center, Miyagi, Japan.
Japan Defense Agency (JDA), Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI), Tachikawa, Trisonic Wind Tunnel 238
Japan
Kawada Wind Tunnel Research Center, Kawada Industries Inc., Tochigi, Japan Kawada Wind Tunnel 100
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Aeronautics Department, Daejeon, Low Turbulence Open Circuit Wind 118
Republic of Korea Tunnel
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Dae-Jeon, Republic of Korea KARI Low Speed Wind Tunnel 124
(LSWT)
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Daejeon, Republic of Korea 4 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 120
3
Europe and Asia

Korea Air Force Academy (KAFA), KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Choongbuk, KAFA Subsonic Wind Tunnel 128
Republic of Korea
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Kobe, Japan 60 cm Trisonic Wind Tunnel 240
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works (MHI Kobe), Kobe, Japan Continuous Circulation Cryogenic 242
Wind Tunnel
National University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Singapore DSO Trisonic Wind Tunnel 254
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Chalais-Meudon, France R2Ch Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 272
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Fluid Mechanics and Energetics Branch, R1Ch Supersonic Wind Tunnel 222
Meudon Center, Meudon, France
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac Center, Le Fauga F2 Continuous Atmospheric 70
Mauzac, France Subsonic Wind Tunnel
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Le Fauga Mauzac Center, Le Fauga F4 Arc-Heated High-Enthalpy 278
Mauzac, France Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France S1Ma Continuous Atmospheric 176
Sub/Transonic Wind Tunnel
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France S2Ma Continuous Pressurized 224
Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France S3Ma Blow-down Pressurized 226
Sub/Trans/Supersonic Wind Tunnel
ONERA French Aeronautics and Space Research Center, Modane-Avrieux, France S4Ma Blow-Down Hypersonic 280
Wind Tunnel
QinetiQ, Farnborough, England 5 m Low Speed Wind Tunnel 62
Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden LT1 Subsonic Wind Tunnel 152
Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, Stockholm, Sweden T1500 Transonic Wind Tunnel 186
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2.2 x 2.9 m Subsonic Wind Tunnel 88
Technological University of Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical UTM Low Speed Wind Tunnel 144
Laboratory, Johor, Malaysia (UTM-LST)
University of Glasgow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland Argyll Wind Tunnel 156
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Europe and Asia

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium Adaptive Wall Low Speed Wind 2
Tunnel T-3
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium CWT-1 Cold Wind Tunnel 4
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium H-3 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel 256
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium L-1A Low Speed Wind Tunnel 6
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium Longshot Free-Piston Gun Wind 258
Tunnel
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium S-1 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 188
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Saint Genese, Belgium S-4 Supersonic Wind Tunnel 190

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AERONAUTICAL WIND TUNNELS

EUROPE AND ASIA

A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division,

Project Manager: Malinda K. Goodrich

Federal Research Division

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