Instrumentation

Instrumentation available at the WEFL include: hot-wire anemometry (single, dual and three-dimensional hot-wire and hot-film probes, as well as surface-mounted thermal sensors), laser Doppler velocimetry (simultaneous measurement of two velocity components, 7 Watt laser), laser-sheet-based flow visualization and image processing systems,  electronically scanned and traditional pressure measurement systems, force balances (traditional and high-frequency), accelerometers, proximity meters, control-driving system for active control of model structural response, as well as fully automated gas sampling, flow velocity profiling, and topographic model generation systems.  

LabView, Matlab, and DSP PC computer environments are employed for data acquisition and processing, and in control experiments.   Commercial CFD software (Fluent^®) and FEM structural analysis (SAP2000^®) packages are respectively used in numerical modeling of wind/flows and structural response.