The main component of our new wind tunnel facility is the pressure vessel shell. The facility has been designed to optimize size while achieving moderately high pressures to create the ideal environment for testing at high Reynolds numbers. With a pressure rating of 500 psi, we can achieve 34 times the atmospheric density of air, and only minor increases in the viscosity.

Our facility is also large, with a maximum test section size of 40″ in diameter, meaning we can test relatively large models at very high Reynolds number values, approaching 1 million per inch.