{"id":1217,"date":"2026-01-31T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group-dev\/facilities\/anechoic-wind-tunnel-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:26:14","slug":"anechoic-wind-tunnel-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/facilities\/anechoic-wind-tunnel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed Circuit Wind Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The MAE Department hosts and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldinc.com\/wind-tunnels\">ELD<\/a>\u00a0Model 407 wind tunnel which the Unsteady Fluids Dynamics Group uses quite regularly. This closed loop facility has a test section with 2\u2032 by 2\u2032 cross sectional area with a heat exchanger in the turning vanes to maintain a constant temperature. This temperature as well as the velocity is controlled through a LabView virtual instrument with a PID controller.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/723\/2026\/01\/eld-1.jpg\" alt=\"photograph of ELD closed loop wind tunnel\" class=\"wp-image-1219\" style=\"width:771px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/723\/2026\/01\/eld-1.jpg 405w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/723\/2026\/01\/eld-1-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MAE Department hosts and\u00a0ELD\u00a0Model 407 wind tunnel which the Unsteady Fluids Dynamics Group uses quite regularly. This closed loop facility has a test section with 2\u2032 by 2\u2032 cross sectional area with a heat exchanger in the turning vanes to maintain a constant temperature. This temperature as well as the velocity is controlled through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":618,"parent":65,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1217","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217\/revisions\/1413"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/unsteady-fluid-dynamics-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}