Restoring Functionality of the Principal Research Wind Tunnel Facility

风洞是进行基础和应用研究的宝贵资产。这些设施能够在良好控制的条件下对流动现象进行复杂的研究，或开发新的流动控制和诊断技术，以提高知识和工程能力。风洞是促进大学与工业合作的基础设施的固有组成部分。 一般来说，风洞实验的操作需要高水平的居民技术专长，初始资本投资很高。因此，中小型工业与大学合作进行空气动力学、流体-结构相互作用、环境分散和流动控制技术领域的研究和开发更具成本效益。尽管它们在经济上很重要，但在加拿大很少有风洞设施适合基础和应用研究。

Wind tunnels are valuable assets enabling fundamental and applied research. These facilities enable complex investigations of flow phenomena under well-controlled conditions or to develop novel flow control and diagnostic techniques for advancing knowledge and engineering capacity. Wind tunnels are an intrinsic part of the infrastructure fostering university-industry partnerships. Generally, the operation of wind tunnel experiments requires a high level of resident technical expertise and the initial capital investment is high. Consequently, it is more cost-effective for small and medium sized industry to partner with universities in conducting research and development in the areas of aerodynamics, fluid-structure interaction, environmental dispersion and flow-control technologies. Despite their economic importance, there are few wind tunnel facilities in Canada suited for both fundamental and applied research.