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Facilities

The Department hosts excellent facilities for research and teaching, with some of the equipment being unique to the UK.

Our facilities support computational and experimental projects in fluid mechanics, structural analysis, composites, optimisation and control and aircraft design.

For enquiries about the use of facilities please contact either:

Department Operations Manager, Siân Haynes
Wind Tunnel Manager, Dr Nigel MacCarthy
the relevant facility manager (please see individual facility pages)

Space Engineering Lab

The Lab supports research into spacecraft propulsion and deployable structures.

Hydrodynamics Flume

The Flume facility is highly flexible and can accommodate a broad range of research projects.

Visualisation Wall

The Visualisation Wall allows our researchers to interactively inspect large computational and experimental datasets containing hundreds of millions of points.

10 x 5 Wind Tunnel

Formerly known as the Honda Wind Tunnel, the Department's flagship wind tunnel allows for low-speed aerodynamics research.

T1 and T2 Wind Tunnels

Our T1 and T2 Wind Tunnels provide sophisticated facilities for teaching and research in the field of experimental aerodynamics.

Other Wind Tunnels and Water Equipment

The Department hosts eight Wind Tunnels in total and a facility that uses water as the working medium.

Flight Simulator

Our full motion Flight Simulator can be programmed to accurately simulate almost any type of aircraft.

Computing Resources

The Department hosts two High Performance Beowulf clusters, an Itanium server and a large number of Linux and Unix workstations, as well as Windows PCs.