Wind Tunnel Test Services

Techsburg can provide testing services that include design of custom hardware (models, test sections, etc), data acquisition system setup, data collection, data reduction, and flow visualization.

Techsburg wind tunnel facilities on-site:

  • Transonic/supersonic blowdown test facility
  • Variable density, transonic suction test facility

The on-site facility is configurable and has been used for a variety of applications including:

  • Laminar flow separation on low-pressure turbine blades
  • Boundary layer ingesting serpentine inlets
  • Compressor and fan cascades
  • Supersonic aircraft performance
  • Flow Control

Techsburg has a wide array of instrumentation for wind tunnel measurements including:

  • 6-component force and moment strain gage balance
  • 48 channels of Scanivalve ZOC17 pressure transducers
  • 64 channels of Pressure Systems miniature ESP pressure scanners
  • Shadowgraph/Schlieren photography
  • A variety of 5-hole, Pitot, and Pitot-Static probes
  • Motorized probe traverse mechanisms
  • 16-bit National Intstruments A/D system with up to 256 data aquisition channels, at sample rates up to 100kHz/channel

Off-site wind tunnel facility access:

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