UK National Wind Tunnel Facility

英国国家风洞设施

• 批准号: EP/X012069/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Morrison
• 金额: $ 103.65万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX012069%2F1
• 关键词: UK; National; Wind; Tunnel; Facility

NWTF (http://www.nwtf.ac.uk/) is a UK leader and, over the next five years, will become a global leader in delivering cutting-edge science across a networked range of unique facilities in experimental fluid mechanics addressing the grand challenges of clean growth and the future of mobility across aerospace, automotive and civil engineering sectors. Through efficient and nimble organisation, it will provide strategic, coordinated oversight with an industrially aligned approach in the generation of new, net-zero technologies and knowledge in the efficiency of fluid-based systems, H2 and electric/hybrid transport, fluid-structure interaction, heating, noise, contaminant dispersion, particle transmission (Covid-19) and human factors, wind loading, coastal erosion and offshore renewables. NWTF continues to provide cutting-edge research, with its capacity measured by outputs and will augment this 'delta' in terms of new science, research capacity and pace. It enables the development of new skills in original, challenging, highly relevant experiments, the provision of new data and the establishment of "digital threads" for AI, modelling and the rapid adoption of innovative techniques such as remote access and robotics. With an inclusive approach, NWTF provides interconnected facilities of world-class capability that are open to all UK-based researchers. In this way, NWTF provides a unified approach that is greater than the sum of its individual facilities, offering a single point of contact for industry, driving an innovation pipeline for a pull-through environment. The NWTF is a hub and node organisation with 23 wind tunnels across 12 universities (nodes) and a centralised Project Manager (hub) who coordinates initiatives on behalf of the group. It has a Management Board (MB) comprising one member from each institution along with the Project Manager. It meets quarterly receiving inputs from a cross-disciplinary, international Advisory Board (AB) which meets bi-annually. The AB consists mostly of experimental aerodynamicists from industry as well as academic colleagues, including those with interests in numerical prediction. Since 2014, NWTF has grown a community, most recently through eight community-wide subgroups on a range of topics; participation is open to all. These online meetings are attended by over 40 academic and industrial participants from the UK, US, Europe, Australia and Japan, demonstrating the potential for NWTF to take the lead internationally. This leadership role has highlighted the need for network events specific to wind tunnels that capture relevant topics, including remote access; multi-purpose and future wind tunnels; development of an experimental database for CFD; new, novel instrumentation; training workshops; researcher mobility and shared best practice for tunnel managers. A further subgroup focuses on joint research projects usually with one key industry but focusing on pre-competitive science. Current subgroups operate with Boeing, QinetiQ, Airbus, DSTL, BAE, JLR and ARUP participation.A key aspect of this proposal is the dissemination of high quality experimental data which are expensive and time-consuming to create. Their availability will be publicised and the data curated so that they are easily accessible and can be exploited by other stakeholders in a range of inter-disciplinary application areas. The network will build upon UKRI policies in making research data open access. It will ensure that best practice is exchanged across the community, with consistent ways of defining meta-data, data formats and maintaining relevance through long-term sustainability. The availability of high-quality data is crucial for the exploitation of new technologies such as AI and machine learning for development of aerodynamic models used in both prediction and control. World-wide, there are no other comparable wind-tunnel data dissemination activities.

NWTF（http://www.nwtf.ac.uk/）是英国的领导者，在接下来的五年中，将成为全球领导者，在实验性流体机制中，在各种独特的设施中提供尖端科学，以解决清洁增长的巨大挑战，以及整个航空航天，汽车，自动驾驶和现代工具的跨越未来的挑战。通过高效和敏捷的组织，它将通过工业统一的方法提供战略性的，协调的监督，从而在基于流体的系统，H2和电力/混合运输，流体结构，加热，供暖，噪声，噪声，污染物分散，粒子分散，粒子传播，covid-19）和人类因素和人类范围内的新型，H2和电力/混合交通，供暖，噪声，噪声，噪音，污染物，污染物和人类境内和人类境内的新型，零零技术和知识中提供了一种统一的方法。 NWTF继续提供最先进的研究，其能力通过产出衡量，并将以新科学，研究能力和步伐来增强这种“三角洲”。它可以开发原始，具有挑战性，高度相关的实验，提供新数据以及为AI，建模和快速采用创新技术（例如远程访问和机器人技术）的“数字线程”来发展新技能。 NWTF采用包容性方法，提供了与所有英国研究人员开放的世界一流能力的互连设施。通过这种方式，NWTF提供了一种统一的方法，该方法大于其单个设施的总和，为行业提供了一个接触点，并推动了用于引发环境的创新管道。 NWTF是一个枢纽和节点组织，在12所大学（节点）和集中式项目经理（HUB）中，代表该小组协调计划。它拥有一个管理委员会（MB），其中包括每个机构的一名成员以及项目经理。它遇到了跨学科的国际顾问委员会（AB）的季度收到的意见，该委员会双年间会面。 AB主要由来自行业和学术同事的实验空气动力学家，包括对数值预测感兴趣的人。自2014年以来，NWTF已建立了一个社区，最近通过了八个社区范围的子组，讨论了一系列主题。参与对所有人开放。来自英国，美国，欧洲，澳大利亚和日本的40多名学术和工业参与者参加了这些在线会议，这表明NWTF有可能在国际上占据领先地位。这种领导角色强调了对捕获相关主题（包括远程访问）的风隧道特定的网络事件的需求；多功能和未来的风隧道；开发CFD实验数据库；新的，新颖的乐器；培训讲习班；研究人员的移动性并为隧道经理分享了最佳实践。进一步的子组集中于通常与一个关键行业的联合研究项目，但专注于竞争性科学。当前的亚组与波音，QINETIQ，空中客车，DSTL，BAE，JLR和ARUP参与一起运行。该提案的关键方面是传播高质量的实验数据，这些数据昂贵且耗时且耗时。它们的可用性将被宣传并策划数据，以便在一系列跨学科的应用领域中易于访问，并可以由其他利益相关者利用。该网络将基于乌克里政策，以使研究数据开放访问。它将确保在整个社区中交换最佳实践，并通过一贯的方式来定义元数据，数据格式并通过长期可持续性保持相关性。高质量数据的可用性对于开发用于预测和控制中使用的空气动力学模型的开发的新技术（例如AI和机器学习）至关重要。在全球范围内，没有其他可比的风能传播活动。