European Strategic Wind tunnels
Improved Research Potential
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Opportunity
In the scope of the ESWIRP project, the EU has provided a budget to open the three facilities to the European research community, and so, to offer the opportunity to universities and research institutes to perform research test in high scale and performance wind tunnels.
What do we expect from you?
A first workshop will be organised in November 2010 near ETW facility at Cologne, Germany. This workshop is intended as an information exchange platform for European researchers to present their ideas of potential experiments, and for the ESWIRP partners to present the facilities. You are invited to present your suggestions and to elaborate on questions that might come from the audience. This made lead to building of transnational teams. In a next step, you may decide to propose a project plan and submit this to ESWIRP for evaluation.
How is your project awarded?
A team of experts will review your proposal and mark it against a set of criteria which will be available prior to the workshop on the ESWIRP website. Planning of the actual testing activities for the selected projects is in 2013. During the workshop there will be a presentation on the procedure for submittal and award and there will be possibility for questions.
What facility improvements are scheduled?
The three strategic facilities each have a different, but coherent, focus on their investments within ESWIRP. The ETW will improve their unsteady testing capabilities for exploring the flight envelop limits, S1MA will improve the Mach number stability in the test section in transonic domain, DNW-LLF is enhancing its ground simulation capability by increasing the available moving belt velocity. During the workshop these investments will be further presented by ETW, ONERA and DNW.