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University of Surrey Environmental Flow (EnFlo) Wind Tunnel

University of Surrey / NWTF

University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England

Access: Yes

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Testing capabilities

  • Climatic and environmental exposure
  • Aerodynamics and aerothermal testing

Services

Controlled atmospheric-boundary-layer and non-neutral flow testing for dispersion, pollution, defence, building and environmental-flow studies; momentum, heat and mass-flux, force and concentration measurement.

Equipment

20 m x 3.5 m x 1.5 m working section; 0.5–5 m/s range in the specialist-facility summary; inlet flow and surface heating/cooling for neutral, stable and unstable layers; automated LDA, tomographic/planar PIV, FFID, HWA, pressure scanning and seven-hole probes.

Standards

No accreditation or test standards stated on the cited facility page; profile explicitly says open access up to 25% of time to external UK/international university and industry researchers.

Contact

Email: admin@nwtf.ac.uk

Approximate location

Guildford · Town location

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