wind tunnel

English

Noun

wind tunnel (plural wind tunnels)

1. A test facility through which air is forced in a controlled manner so as to study the effects of flow around airfoils, aircraft, motor cars etc.
   • 2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 56:

     But unlike many other tunnels that lay idle and decaying, Catesby has now found a new use as an aerodynamic wind tunnel for the motor industry.

Derived terms

• wind tunnel testing

 

Translations

test facility

• Danish: vindtunnel c
• Finnish: tuulitunneli (fi)
• German: Windkanal (de) m
• Greek: αεροσήραγγα (el) f (aerosíranga)
• Italian: galleria del vento f, galleria aerodinamica f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vindtunnel m, vindtunell m

  Nynorsk: vindtunnel m

• Polish: tunel aerodynamiczny m
• Spanish: túnel aerodinámico m, túnel de viento m
• Swedish: vindtunnel (sv) c

See also

• water tunnel