Aerospace Testing Facilities available in India
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| Title of the Aerospace Test |
National Wind Tunnel Facility |
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| Name of the Organisation |
IIT |
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| Name of theLab |
Indian Institute of Technology - IITK |
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| Place of the Lab |
Kanpur |
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| Category of Aerospace Test | Wind Tunnel Testing | |
| Sub-category of Aerospace Test | NA | |
| Year of Establisment | 1999 | |
| Test Applications | Aerospace & Non-aerospace, Research & Development, and Industrial. Full-model testing with sting support system Half-model testing with external balance Turntables system for aeronautical and non-aeronautical applications Moving belt ground plane for ground effect simulation Gust and cross wind simulation Aero-acoustic testing Laser light sheet generation system for flow visualization 3D Stereoscopic PIV system |
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| Test Special Features | Steady and Unsteady force & moment measurements Steady and Unsteady pressure measurements Aeroelastic tests Ground effect simulation studies Wind effect on structures including interference effect Low Reynolds number airfoils studies Low speed air-intake studies |
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| Other Test Information | On model pitch, roll and yaw sensors Roll, Pitch and Yaw (0.01 degree) and Y & Z motion (-0.1mm) Present and continuous movements Flex-motion eight axis closed loop control system PSI scanners(11 Nos, 32 port each) 10, 20 and 70 inch WC with 0.05% accuracy Internal Strain gauge force balaces, load cells DANTAC streamline CTA system for velocity measurements Hot-wire probes and calibrator RTD, SS sensors and thermocouples for temperature B & K microphone sensors and amplifier for noise measurements 3D Stereoscopic PIV system Light sheet generation using 6W Ar-Ion Laser Image monitoring and recording system |
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| Contact Person / Institution | The Coordinator National Wind Tunnel Facility Professor, Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, KANPUR - 2080016 Phone : +91512259 - 7906/7226(o) Fax : +915122597226 Email : smittal@iitk.ac.in Website: http://www.iitk.ac.in/nwtf/ |
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