UK testing facilities
City St George's Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel
City St George's, University of London / NWTF
City St George's, University of London, London, England
Access: Yes
Testing capabilities
- Aerodynamics and aerothermal testing
Services
Transonic and supersonic aerospace flow testing, shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction, turbine-blade aerodynamics, rocket science and heat-exchange studies; pressure, surface-shear, Schlieren, shadowgraph, PIV and 3D LDV measurements.
Equipment
0.2 m x 0.25 m x 0.5 m test section; Mach 0.5–2; up to 20 x 10^6/m Reynolds number; 1–1.2 bar total pressure; up to 30 s run time; internal five-component sting balance; 3-component LDV and 1 kHz stereoscopic PIV.
Standards
No accreditation or test standards stated on the cited facility page.
Contact
Email: admin@nwtf.ac.uk
Approximate location
London · Town location