Construction completed in March of 2026! The turbulence box facility features four inward-facing arrays of 8 x 12 solenoid valves mounting 2 mm orifices and fed by pressurized air, for a total of 384 individually actuated jets. The panels are approximately 2 meters apart and can be controlled to produce zero-mean turbulence in the central region. Ongoing work includes the characterization of the flow in the center as a function of the jet firing algorithm, the investigation of turbulence dynamics in the center of the facility, and (in the future) the investigation of small inertial particles interacting with the turbulence.
Currently under construction! Over 2250 square feet of laboratory space is currently under renovation in Engineering Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to house several new supersonic facilities including:
A Mach 2 Ludwieg Tube
A blow-down to atmosphere supersonic wind tunnel (Mach 2 - Mach 4)
A (future) dual-heater hypersonic weather tunnel (Mach 6)
Looking for wind tunnel testing? Contact dcarter26@wisc.edu (2028 and beyond)