Sentences with phrase «wind tunnels»

Wind tunnels were used to form the new F - Body platform's shape, and Pontiac took full advantage of it.

It's designed primarily with aerodynamics in mind, though Honda won't supply a coefficient of drag figure - based mainly on the fact that different wind tunnels produce different results.

Ferrari has its own wind tunnels, and its chassis are second to none.

Unburdened by old production facilities, ideas, and ingrained ways of doing things yet blessed with the company's massive wind tunnels, computer facilities, and nearly five decades of uninterrupted experience in chassis design, it's «all of the technology with none of the baggage,» as Sheriff described it.

Long - term Tatra owner Delwyn Mallett surveys the pioneering use of wind tunnels in automotive body design, focussing on the influential work of Hungarian aerodynamicist Paul Jaray

To ensure its cars are as quiet as possible, Ford is now using «mobile» wind tunnels built inside shipping containers.

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But normal wind tunnels used for automotive testing are expensive to build and operate, meaning it's pricey to run a completed vehicle through the test.

Though the mobile wind tunnels have fewer sensors and less data - gathering capability than a traditional one, Ford says it still allows the company to use sensitive audio equipment to check cabin insulation close to where a car is built.

And because Ford only has wind tunnels in certain locations (including Allen Park, Michigan), shipping cars from factories to the wind tunnel adds a lot of time and expense to the test process.

It is also seeking donations of industry equipment like old planes, engines and wind tunnels to train students.

None of these will protect you from the wind tunnels that form on the avenues... but at least you'll look great below your winter coat!

Wind tunnels are also used for educational purposes.

First, there are two main types of wind tunnels: closed - circuit and open - circuit.

In fact, NASA AMES, in Moffet Field, California, has the most wind tunnels at any one location in the world, and also has the largest wind tunnel on Earth!

Before you get started, there are a few basics to learn about wind tunnels.

Engineers often use large wind tunnels to analyze the flow of air around scale models of objects, such as cars and airplanes.

The wind tunnels have also tested cars, trucks, ships, and even wheelchairs.

Repairs and upgrades are essential for ageing items like wind tunnels and computers, the report says.

To answer this question, the researchers designed a three - dimensional tracking system specially developed for the wind tunnels and consisting of multiple cameras which can record the movements of single moths.

Model jet fighters and even space shuttle prototypes have been painted with this stuff and tested in wind tunnels in an effort to make them fly better.

Unlike traditional wind tunnels, CFD allows engineers to identify the contribution to drag for each component.

You might not expect it from a sport that evolved out of bootleggers racing their moonshine down twisty Appalachian roads, but modern racing teams use computational fluid dynamics simulations, wind tunnels, and the highly technical know - how of engineers to eke milliseconds out of each driver's lap time.

«The only way this will really be answered is to get some better fossils, build really good models, and do experiments in wind tunnels,» says Norell.

When Ellington and other researchers put a variety of bugs in wind tunnels, however, the conventional lift they measured was never more than half of what was required to lift the weight of the animal, and often less than a third.

Although he has extensively tested his wheel in wind tunnels and other environments, Lew isn't releasing the data yet.

He was with researchers from the University of Texas who had set out portable wind tunnels to measure dust movement.

They used wind tunnels to observe mosquitoes, placing them in an enclosed environment where they could record and track their behavior.

Between measuring frictional properties of potential fabrics in NASA wind tunnels and modeling the fluid dynamics of jiggling flesh, the manufacturers have definitely created some hydrodynamic suits.

Facilities such as wind tunnels and supercomputers could be shut down and teams of experts broken up as government departments are forced to award contracts outside Britain.

Compared with lower - rise construction, they require more energy, and their wind tunnels and long shadows diminish livability.

Instead of using traditional wind tunnels to examine a car's aerodynamics, though, a team led by Angus Lock at MIRA, an automotive research consultancy based in Nuneaton, UK, use helium - filled bubbles.

Since late last year, NASA engineers have been sticking models of these vehicles in Mach - 10 wind tunnels, and even firing them out of large guns, to identify possible flight instabilities.

Tests in wind tunnels reveal they can withstand winds up to one hundred miles per hour.

Funding for R&D facilities includes construction, repair, or alteration of physical plant (e.g., reactors, wind tunnels, particle accelerators, or laboratories) used in the conduct of R&D.

My kids were also pretty memorized by these wind tunnels that were on display (there are so many products to test and play with in the store!)

We own one of the most advanced wind tunnels in the world, a centre of excellence for research and development in the aerodynamics and aero - acoustics field since 1972.

From a technical point of view, they [wind tunnels] are dinosaurs that are about to die out anyway.

«The wind tunnels don't blow fast enough to even to get to that speed to know whether it was good or bad.

Models of airplanes are tested in wind tunnels.

This limits the chance of errors once the physical helicopters are made and eventually tested in actual wind tunnels.

«Concorde was designed half a century ago with slide rules and wind tunnels.

That's why aircraft designers need wind tunnels to test their designs.»

Boothe: When I first started to visit car plants, designers would be carving designs out of clay to put into a wind tunnel to see what their resistance was.

Unable to afford a wind tunnel to test his designs, he would strap parts of his plane to the roof of his station wagon and hurtle down the road at 80 mph to see how they held up.

Perth looks set to have its own indoor skydiving facility after Sydney - based leisure firm Indoor Skydive Australia announced it had signed an offer to lease a block of land in Belmont to construct a 4.2 - metre vertical wind tunnel.

In Kazan, on the mid-Volga, Catholics converted an ordinary apartment into a chapel after the secular authorities refused to return their nineteenth - century church building, which had been converted into a wind tunnel for aviation research.

Add to this the wind tunnel approved, extensive aerodynamic features on the car and we have a pretty stunning vehicle serving as the safety car this season.

It forms a natural wind tunnel between the world's fourth - highest peak, the 27.890 - foot Lhotse, and Everest.

We may not be talking NFL - style parity, but what has transpired is still a wind tunnel of fresh air.