Restoring Functionality of the Principal Research Wind Tunnel Facility

风洞是支持基础和应用研究的宝贵资产。这些设施可以在控制良好的条件下对流动现象进行复杂的调查，或者开发新的流动控制和诊断技术，以提高知识和工程能力。风洞是促进大学与产业伙伴关系的基础设施的内在组成部分。一般来说，风洞实验的运行需要高水平的常驻技术人员，初始资金投入较高。因此，中小型工业与大学合作开展空气动力学、流体-结构相互作用、环境分散和流量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，但加拿大几乎没有适合基础研究和应用研究的风洞设施。

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.