wind tunnel

English

Noun

wind tunnel (plural wind tunnels)

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)
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

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