This experimental facility simulates accurately large-scale natural phenomena of the atomosphere above ocean and land.
This wind tunnel is a suction type and the test section is 1.5m wide by 1.2m high and 13.5m long. In order to produce thermally stratified flows, the tunnel has two independent temperature systems of thermal stratification unit(TSU) and heating and cooling floor panel unit(HCFU). The TSU heats up intake air flow at various proportions in the perpendicular direction and forms a thermal stratification air flow having various temperature gradients in the perpendicular direction. The HCFU performs heating and cooling of air flow from the floor surface in the test section by heating and cooling floor panels.