List of wind tunnels


This is an alphabetical list of wind tunnels.
NameStatusSize UseCountryComments
A2 Wind TunnelFull scale general purposeUnited States~$500/hr full scale race car, motorcycle, bicycle
ACE Climatic Wind TunnelFull scale: automotive, motorsport, cycling, skiing, architectural, transit, truck, product developmentCanadaAvailable and accessible for all industries requiring wind tunnel services or climatic services
Aerodium SiguldaOperationalTesting, training, open to the publicLatviaFirst vertical wind tunnel in Eastern Europe
AeroDyn Wind TunnelFull scale NASCAR racecarsUnited States
Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test UnitOperationalHypersonicUnited StatesLocated at Arnold Air Force Base and operated by the United States Air Force
Aircraft Research AssociationOperationalTransonicUnited KingdomTransonic closed circuit, continuous flow wind tunnel. Mach number 0 - 1.4. Reynolds Number 3.5 to 16.7 million/m
Auto Research CenterSubsonic research and development including: 50% scale model automotive rolling road, wind turbine design and optimization, and cyclingUnited StatesWind tunnel has a moving ground plane as well as primary and secondary boundary layer suction. Subsonic testing capabilities for motorsports, production cars, commercial semi-trucking, cycling, wind turbines, architecture, aerospace, academic research, and industrial research and development.
RUAG Automotive Wind Tunnel EmmenOperationalLow speed automotive and general purposeSwitzerlandBelt system for rolling road simulation
Boeing Icing Wind TunnelOperationalUnited States
Boeing Low-speed Aero-Acoustic FacilityOperationalUnited States
Boeing Polysonic Wind TunnelOperationalUnited States
Boeing Propulsion Wind TunnelOperationalLow-speed, atmospheric, non-return, induction-type facility. Typical models include engine inlets, exhaust nozzles, small engines or powered vehicles, aerodynamic half or full models, as well as thrust reversers.United States
Boeing Subsonic Wind TunnelOperationalUnited States
Boeing Transonic Wind TunnelOperationalUnited States
Boundary Layer and Subsonic Wind TunnelOperational
Boundary Layer Test Section:
Subsonic Test Section:
Boundary Layer Development / Low-Speed / Subsonic / General PurposeUnited States
Building Research EstablishmentOperationalUnited KingdomTwo atmospheric boundary layer tunnels
Cal Poly's Low Speed Wind TunnelLow speed: Scale model testing, Aerospace, Automotive, IR industryUnited StatesStartups, major Aerospace corporations and other scientific equipment tested here. Rolling road implementation in progress.
Calspan Wind TunnelOperationalSubsonic / TransonicUnited StatesThe only independently owned and operated wind tunnel in the United States.
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-1Diameter
by 		Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-2Diameter
by 		Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-5Diameter
by 		Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-101Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-102Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-103 Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-104Diameter Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-105Diameter
by 		Vertical wind tunnelRussia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-106Diameter
by 		Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-107Diameter
by 		Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-109Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-112Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-113Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-113Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-116Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-117Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-124Russia
Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute: T-128Russia
City, University of London Transonic Wind TunnelOperational by by ; return: by by United KingdomMach 0.4 – 2.0; return max speed 12 m/s. Part of the UK National Wind Tunnel Facility
Cranfield University 8x4 Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind TunnelOperational by United Kingdom
Cranfield University 8'x6' Low Speen Wind TunnelOperational by United KingdomPart of the UK National Wind Tunnel Facility
Cranfield University Weybridge Wind TunnelOperational diameter jetUnited Kingdom
Cranfield University Icing TunnelOperational by ; octagonal; by United KingdomThree test sections. Part of the UK National Wind Tunnel Facility
CRIACIV Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel - University of FlorenceOperationalBuilding, bridges, general purposeItalyClosed circuit wind tunnel, T-shaped diffuser, one atmospheric test section.
Durham University 2m tunnelOperationalUnited KingdomSubsonic; turbulence generation system; moving or fixed ground
Durham University 1m recirculating wind tunnelOperational: by by United Kingdom –
Durham University – smaller tunnelsOperationalUnited KingdomThree tunnels; max speed 20 m/s
EDITH supersonic wind tunnelOperationalDiameter
by 		Long shot time running.FranceFundamental research on shock waves. Aerodynamic and aerothermal behaviour of probes and models. Fluidic thrust vectoring of supersonic nozzle
Energy Technology CentreOperationalWorking section by Wind blade testingUnited Kingdom
European Transonic Wind TunnelTransonicGermany
Ferrari wind tunnelOperational wide
by long		Italy
Focke's wind tunnelOperationalGermanyPrivate laboratory of Henrich Focke, not discovered until 1977
Glenn L. Martin Wind TunnelLow speed: scale model testing, automotive, aerospaceUnited States
GVPMOperational
Building, bridges, rail, aeronautical, general purposeItalyVertically arranged closed circuit wind tunnel with two test sections: one atmospheric, one aeronautical with possibility to test with open / closed jet.
Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9Diameter United StatesLocated at Arnold Air Force Base and operated by the United States Air Force
Imperial College LondonOperationalLow speed tunnels: to United KingdomFive low speed tunnels and other tunnels up to mach 9
Jules Verne climatic wind tunnelOperational
Automotive, Rail, Full scale general purposeFranceThree test sections with wind speeds up to
Klebanoff–Saric Wind TunnelOperationalUnited States
Large Amplitude Multi-Purpose Vertical Wind Tunnel Bihrle Applied ResearchOperationalDiameter Vertical, Subsonic, High AOA, Static or body-axis oscillatoryGermanyPrivately owned wind tunnel. +- 180 degree AOA and +-90 degree sideslip. Diverse testing capability: static, wind body axis dynamic, Multi-body axis dynamic, simultaneous force moment and pressure data acquisition.
RUAG Large Wind Tunnel EmmenOperationalLow speed aerospace, full scale automotive and general purposeSwitzerland
Lockheed Martin Low Speed Wind TunnelOperational
Aeronautics, Full Scale Automotive, V/STOL Aircraft, General PurposeUnited StatesLarger test section was designed for use of V/STOL aircraft but is not limited to such. Max speed of ~ in smaller test section and ~ in the larger test section.
Loughborough University Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Low Turbulence WindtunnelOperationalUnited KingdomAAE Large Windtunnel
Loughborough University Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Large WindtunnelOperationalUnited Kingdom
Loughborough University Automotive Wind TunnelOperational by by United Kingdom'Rolling road' moving ground plane. Part of the UK National Wind Tunnel Facility
MARHy wind TunnelOperationalDiameter
by 		Hypersonic/supersonic rarefied wind tunnel. No limit running time. Reynolds number /cm: 26.3 < Re < 7522;Mach number: 0.8 < Mach < 20FranceFundamental and applied research of fluid dynamic phenomena in rarefied compressible flows. Aerodynamic and aerothermal behaviour of probes and models; Plasma flow control in rarefied and super/hypersonic flows.
Modine Wind Tunnels
United StatesClimatic wind tunnel testing, large truck and automotive
NASA Ames 7-by 10 Foot Wind TunnelUnited States
NASA Ames Hypersonic Propulsion Integration 16 Inch ShockDiameter Hypersonic propulsionUnited States
NASA Ames Hypersonic Propulsion Integration Direct-ConnectHypersonic propulsionUnited States
NASA Ames National Full Scale Aerodynamic Complex
SubsonicUnited StatesLargest wind tunnel in the world
NASA Ames Subsonic 12 Foot High-Rn PressureDiameter SubsonicUnited States
NASA Ames 9-by 7-foot Supersonic Wind TunnelSupersonicUnited States
NASA Ames 11-by 11-foot Transonic Wind TunnelTransonicUnited States
NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind TunnelTransonic/supersonicUnited States
NASA Glenn 10- by 10-Foot Abe Silverstein Supersonic Wind TunnelSupersonic, Propulsion and Aero CapabilityUnited States
NASA Glenn 8- by 6-Foot Wind TunnelTransonicUnited States
NASA Glenn 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind TunnelSubsonicUnited States
NASA Glenn Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory Nozzle Acoustic Test RigDiameter Acoustic testing of exhaust nozzles, subsonicUnited StatesFree-jet
NASA Glenn Engine Components Research LabUnited States
NASA Glenn Hypersonic Test FacilityHypersonicUnited States
NASA Glenn Icing Research TunnelSubsonic IcingUnited States
NASA Glenn Propulsion Systems LaboratoryActiveDiameter
by long		Full-Scale Engine TestingUnited StatesFour test cells: 1 & 2 demolished; 3 & 4 active. Cell 3 has icing capabilities
NASA Langley 14- by 22-Foot Subsonic TunnelSubsonic atmosphericUnited States
NASA Langley 20-Foot Vertical Spin TunnelDiameter Subsonic vertical spinUnited States
NASA Langley Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel-Diameter High speedUnited States
NASA Langley Full-Scale Wind TunnelDemolishedFull-scale aircraftUnited StatesNASA's oldest operating wind tunnel until its closing in October 1995
NASA Langley High-Rn Transonic Dynamics TunnelOperationalAeroelasticity, high-risk testing, active controls, rotorcraft performance and stability, transonic aerodynamics.United StatesUnique capability to manipulate fluid-structure scaling parameters with use of Heavy-Gas or air as a test medium and variable pressure. Good flow quality for large transonic tunnel
NASA Langley Hypersonic 20 Inch Mach 6 AirDiameter HypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic 20 Inch Mach 6 TetrafluoromethaneDemolished in 2016Diameter HypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic 31 Inch Mach 10 AirDiameter HypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic Propulsion Integration 15 Inch Mach 6 High-Temperature TunnelDiameter HypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic Propulsion Integration 8 Foot High-Temperature TunnelDiameter Hypersonic, high-temperatureUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic Propulsion Integration Arc-Heated ScramjetHypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic Propulsion Integration Combustion ScramjetHypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Hypersonic Propulsion Integration Supersonic CombustionHypersonicUnited States
NASA Langley NASA / GASL HYPULSE Propulsion IntegrationUnited States
NASA Langley National Transonic FacilityTransonicUnited States
NASA Langley Propeller Research TunnelDiameter Full-scale aircraft used primarily in reducing drag caused by propellers and exposed enginesUnited States
NASA Langley Subsonic 12 Foot Atmospheric LabDiameter Subsonic atmosphericUnited States
NASA Langley Subsonic Low-Turbulence Pressure TunnelSubsonic low-turbulenceUnited States
NASA Langley Supersonic High-RnSupersonicUnited States
NASA Langley Transonic 16 Foot AtmosphericTransonic atmosphericUnited States
NASA Langley Variable Density TunnelDiameter
by long		Measuring aerodynamic qualities of airfoilsUnited StatesWorld's first variable density wind tunnel
National Wind Tunnel FacilityOperationalUnited KingdomTwenty-two wind tunnels at twelve universities allowing open access
ODTÜ-RÜZGEMOperational
High Speed Test Section:
Boundary Layer Test Section:
Open Jet:
equivalent diameter octagonal jet		Wind energy, aeronautics, civil engineeringTurkey
High Speed Test Section: Max speed, TI<0.25%
Boundary Layer Test Section: Max speed with spires and roughness elements
Open Jet: Max speed
Interchangeable modular test sections, 6x400 kW axial fan array, 750 kW heat exchanger
ONERA Modane S1MA wind tunnelOperationalDiameter
by 		Subsonic atmosphericFranceLargest continuous blow-down wind tunnel in the world, Mach 0.05 to 1.
ONERA Modane S2MA wind tunnelOperationalSupersonicFranceContinuous-flow wind tunnel, Variable pressure, Mach 0.1 to Mach 3.0.
PHEDRA (Arc-jet) high enthalpy wind tunnelOperationalDiameter
by 		Supersonic high enthalpy rarefied wind tunnel. No limit running time. Averaged enthalpy, Mj/kg: few < Ho < 50; Mach number: 2 < Mach < 8;Working gas: N2, Air, CO2, CH4, Ar and extensive mixturesFranceFundamental research of high enthalpy fluid dynamic phenomena in non-equilibrium flows. Aerodynamic and aerothermal behaviour of probes and models; Atmospheric entry research.
Poul la Cour TunnelOperationalAirfoil aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, 10 to 105 m/s, Re~7MDenmarkNamed for Poul la Cour
Propulsion Wind Tunnel FacilityOperationalTransonic:
Supersonic:
United StatesPart of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex located at Arnold Air Force Base and operated by the United States Air Force
Rail Tec Arsenal Climatic Wind TunnelOperationalFull scale: transit, locomotive, automotive, propeller and turbines, airfoils and aircraft
Icing-, solar-, precipitatoin tests
all subsonic		AustriaRTA operates the longest climatic wind channel in the world. Whole trains up can be tested under real world conditions from and variable climatic conditions.
R J Mitchell Wind TunnelOperationalUnited KingdomLargest university owned wind tunnel in the United Kingdom, named for R. J. Mitchell
RWDI Wind TunnelsOperational
Wind engineering, scale buildingsCanadaTwo wind tunnels
San Diego Wind TunnelUnited StatesMajor airframers, bicycle manufacturers and professional athletes
T3 Hypersonic wind tunnelBrazil
Texas A&M Oran W. Nicks Low Speed Wind TunnelScale aircraft, UAV, rocket, missile, academic research, automotive, motorsport, cycling, skiing, architectural, transit, truck, product development 0-200MPHUnited States
TitanX Jamestown Vehicle Climatic Wind TunnelClimatic testing of vehicle systems and entire trucksUnited StatesOpen for external clients
Trisonic Wind TunnelUnited States
TrudelturmHeight Germany
University of BristolOperationalLarge Low Speed Wind Tunnel by
Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel by
Open Jet Wind Tunnel diameter		United Kingdom
University of British Columbia Boundary Layer Wind TunnelBoundary layer, architectural, and wind-engineering studiesCanadaSpeed range:
University of British Columbia Parkinson Wind TunnelAeronautical research, studies of flow-induced oscillations, studies of wind tunnel blockage effectsCanadaSpeed range:
University of GlasgowOperationalDe-Havilland Wind Tunnel by
Handley-Page Wind Tunnel by
Low Speed Wind Tunnel by
Flow Visualisation Wind Tunnel by 		United Kingdom
University of ManchesterOperationalHypersonic wind tunnel diameter
Trisonic wind tunnel by
Open-circuit boundary layer tunnel by by
Open-circuit wind tunnel by by
Open-circuit wind tunnel by by
Closed-circuit water tunnel by by
Tilting flume by by 		United KingdomHypersonic wind tunnel: Mach 4, 5, 6; trisonic wind tunnel: Mach 0 to 0.8, 1.8
University of SouthamptonOperational3' x 2' tunnel by by
7' x 5' tunnel by
R J Mitchell Wind Tunnel by 		United Kingdom
University of SurreyOperationalEnFlo Laboratory meteorological wind tunnel by by United Kingdom
University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory, Kirsten Wind TunnelSubsonicUnited States
University of Washington Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics 3x3Velocity range approx. United StatesThe original "Boeing Aerodynamical Chamber", built in 1918 with an Eiffel and updated in the early 1990s with new power systems and a higher velocity EDL
Virginia Tech Stability Wind TunnelUnited States
Von Karman Gas Dynamics FacilityOperationalUnited StatesThree tunnels at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex
Williams F1 Wind Tunnel 2OperationalMotorsport / AutomotiveUnited Kingdom
WindShear Full Scale, Rolling Road, Automotive Wind TunnelWind shearUnited States
Windtech Boundary Layer Wind TunnelOperationalLow-Speed / Boundary Layer Wind TunnelAustraliaWindtech owns and operates one of the largest boundary layer wind tunnel labs in the world with a total of 3 wind tunnels under one roof. Each wind tunnel is