The largest plasma wind tunnel is the SCIROCCO facility, located at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre near Capua, Italy. Built between 1994 and 2001, and opened in 2002, SCIROCCO's 70-megawatt arc ...

Since the beginning of 2008 the climatic wind tunnel completes the Audi Wind Tunnel Center in Ingolstadt. It creates temperatures between minus 25 and plus 55 degrees Celsius and allows engineers to ...

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The sounds of construction permeate the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building at the University of Colorado Boulder. The bang of hammers. The wail of electric saws. A new laboratory for a plasma ...

The world needs more wind energy. But anyone designing new wind turbines or trying to squeeze more power out of existing ones ...

Allen Park — In a long white and blue building behind I-94’s 80-foot-tall Uniroyal tire landmark, cars are traveling at speeds up to 200 mph. While stationary. Ford Motor Co.'s Vehicle Performance and ...

HAMPTON — NASA officials and state leadership cut the ribbon Friday on the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years as the agency undergoes a wave of consolidation. The Flight Dynamics ...

In a windowless, warehouse-sized lab on campus, a team of CU Boulder researchers huddle around two wind tunnels—long metal tubes that blow air currents at controlled speeds. Laura Shannon, a graduate ...