Industrial fluid mechanics and aerodynamics laboratory

To fulfil the mandates or research which are assigned to it, it also has a range of major installations and equipment, including:

• a subsonic wind tunnel characterised by a large-dimension working section (1.5 x 2 m², length 5 m)
• a calibration wind tunnel with a low rate of turbulence, enabling speeds of 80 m/s (approx. 290 Km/h)
• An educational wind tunnel of the Eiffel type characterised by a working section of 0.3 x 0.3 m² and a maximum speed of 36 m/s
• a supersonic wind tunnel for studying flows around mobiles and their display up to a Mach number of 2.4, i.e. nearly 3,000 km per hour. It has a working section of 0.12 x 0.08 m²
• weighing machines of various capacities
• a calibration room for calibrating weighing machines
• 3D digitisation of mock-ups for creating 3D CAD files of mock-ups. Tools for the digital simulation of flows and digital transfers (ANSYS CFD, OpenFoam)
• 3D printers for producing mock-up elements of 300 x 300 x 600 mm³. The group also has access to subcontractors and to HEPIA’s mechanics workshop

The laboratory has ANSYS Associate CFD licences (i.e. industrial), enabling it to implement mandates with companies.

It has access to ultra-modern computation resources, including 8 workstations of 16 cores 126 Gb RAM, as well as access to an HPC computation server of 2,500 cores.