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1wind tunnel — ► NOUN ▪ a tunnel like apparatus for producing an airstream past models of aircraft, buildings, etc., in order to investigate flow or the effect of wind on the full size object …
2Wind tunnel — A wind tunnel is a research tool developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects.Ways that wind speed and flow are measured in wind tunnels: * Threads can be attached to the surface of study objects to… …
3Wind Shear's Full Scale, Rolling Road, Automotive Wind Tunnel — Windshear Full Scale Rolling Road Wind Tunnel In January 2008 Wind Shear, a division of US machine tool builder Haas Automation, completed construction on one of the most advanced automotive wind tunnels in the world. The full scale tunnel is… …
4wind tunnel — [[t]wɪ̱nd tʌn(ə)l[/t]] wind tunnels N COUNT A wind tunnel is a room or passage through which air can be made to flow at controlled speeds. Wind tunnels are used to test new equipment or machinery, especially cars and aeroplanes …
5wind tunnel — A tubelike structure or passage, sometimes continuous, which together with its adjuncts (such as a fan), produces a high speed movement of air or other gas. Objects such as engines or aircraft, airfoils, rockets (or models of these objects), etc …
6wind tunnel — noun a tunnel like apparatus for producing an airstream past models of aircraft, buildings, etc., in order to investigate flow or the effect of wind on the full size object …
7wind tunnel — noun Date: 1911 a tunnellike passage through which air is blown at a known velocity to investigate air flow around an object (as an airplane part or model) placed in the passage …
8wind tunnel — noun A test facility through which air is forced in a controlled manner so as to study the effects of flow around airfoils, aircraft, motor cars etc …
9Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel — ubsonic tunnelLow speed wind tunnels are used for operations at very low mach number, with speeds in the test section up to 400 km/h ( 100 m/s, M = 0.3). They are of open return type ( losses. Open wind tunnelThe working principle is based on the …
10Hypersonic wind tunnel — A hypersonic wind tunnel is designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section. The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15. As with supersonic wind tunnels, these types of tunnels must run intermittently with very high… …
