Resources

Access to the following resources

Numerical simulations

HPCC at TTU

The high-performance computing center (HPCC) allows the faculty members and students at TTU to run computationally expensive simulations in parallel processes.

Computational Fluid dynamics (CFD) tools

CFD is used to observe the entire flow field and helps predict the flow features before any physical simulation.

Physical simulations/experiments

VorTech

One of the largest tornado simulators in the world.

Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel

Contains two sections: (a) Boundary Layer Section and (b) Aerodynamic Section. Facilities included, but not limited to, cobra probes, force transducers, and laser displacement sensors.

Field deployments

Mobile Deployment Vehicle

Truck and Trailer Unit for carrying the StickNets, which comes with a Charging Station and Network Switch (LAN)

StickNet

Rapidly deployable meteorological observing station that can measure (a)Temperature (C) (b) Relative Humidity (%) (c) Barometric Pressure (hPa) (d) Wind Speed (m/s) (e) Wind Direction (deg)

200 m meteorological tower (TTU)

A 200-meter meteorological tower is located at the National Wind Institute's (NWI's) field site to collect high-frequency wind-related data at 10 different elevations above ground level.

Access to full scale data

Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory (WERFL) Building

The WERFL building has produced high quality data that is commonly used for validation of wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamic results. This is located at NWI's field site, which includes a 160 ft meteorological tower instrumented at 5 heights (8', 13', 33', 70', and 160') and a 30'x45'x13' high test structure.

Visual Aid Tools

Gopro hero black 13

GoPro(s) for capturing transient wind phenomena.

Drone

Drone for ariel photography.

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