UK National Wind Tunnel Facility

英国国家风洞设施

• 批准号: EP/X012069/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Morrison
• 金额: $ 103.65万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX012069%2F1
• 关键词: UK; National; Wind; Tunnel; Facility

NWTF (http://www.nwtf.ac.uk/) is a UK leader and, over the next five years, will become a global leader in delivering cutting-edge science across a networked range of unique facilities in experimental fluid mechanics addressing the grand challenges of clean growth and the future of mobility across aerospace, automotive and civil engineering sectors. Through efficient and nimble organisation, it will provide strategic, coordinated oversight with an industrially aligned approach in the generation of new, net-zero technologies and knowledge in the efficiency of fluid-based systems, H2 and electric/hybrid transport, fluid-structure interaction, heating, noise, contaminant dispersion, particle transmission (Covid-19) and human factors, wind loading, coastal erosion and offshore renewables. NWTF continues to provide cutting-edge research, with its capacity measured by outputs and will augment this 'delta' in terms of new science, research capacity and pace. It enables the development of new skills in original, challenging, highly relevant experiments, the provision of new data and the establishment of "digital threads" for AI, modelling and the rapid adoption of innovative techniques such as remote access and robotics. With an inclusive approach, NWTF provides interconnected facilities of world-class capability that are open to all UK-based researchers. In this way, NWTF provides a unified approach that is greater than the sum of its individual facilities, offering a single point of contact for industry, driving an innovation pipeline for a pull-through environment. The NWTF is a hub and node organisation with 23 wind tunnels across 12 universities (nodes) and a centralised Project Manager (hub) who coordinates initiatives on behalf of the group. It has a Management Board (MB) comprising one member from each institution along with the Project Manager. It meets quarterly receiving inputs from a cross-disciplinary, international Advisory Board (AB) which meets bi-annually. The AB consists mostly of experimental aerodynamicists from industry as well as academic colleagues, including those with interests in numerical prediction. Since 2014, NWTF has grown a community, most recently through eight community-wide subgroups on a range of topics; participation is open to all. These online meetings are attended by over 40 academic and industrial participants from the UK, US, Europe, Australia and Japan, demonstrating the potential for NWTF to take the lead internationally. This leadership role has highlighted the need for network events specific to wind tunnels that capture relevant topics, including remote access; multi-purpose and future wind tunnels; development of an experimental database for CFD; new, novel instrumentation; training workshops; researcher mobility and shared best practice for tunnel managers. A further subgroup focuses on joint research projects usually with one key industry but focusing on pre-competitive science. Current subgroups operate with Boeing, QinetiQ, Airbus, DSTL, BAE, JLR and ARUP participation.A key aspect of this proposal is the dissemination of high quality experimental data which are expensive and time-consuming to create. Their availability will be publicised and the data curated so that they are easily accessible and can be exploited by other stakeholders in a range of inter-disciplinary application areas. The network will build upon UKRI policies in making research data open access. It will ensure that best practice is exchanged across the community, with consistent ways of defining meta-data, data formats and maintaining relevance through long-term sustainability. The availability of high-quality data is crucial for the exploitation of new technologies such as AI and machine learning for development of aerodynamic models used in both prediction and control. World-wide, there are no other comparable wind-tunnel data dissemination activities.

NWTF (http://www.nwtf.ac.uk/) 是英国的领先者，在未来五年内，将成为通过一系列独特的实验流体力学设施网络提供尖端科学的全球领导者清洁增长的巨大挑战以及航空航天、汽车和土木工程领域移动出行的未来。通过高效灵活的组织，它将通过工业一致的方法提供战略性、协调性的监督，以产生新的净零技术和流体系统效率、氢气和电动/混合动力运输、流体-结构相互作用方面的知识、供暖、噪音、污染物扩散、颗粒传输 (Covid-19) 和人为因素、风荷载、海岸侵蚀和近海可再生能源。 NWTF 继续提供尖端研究，其能力以产出衡量，并将在新科学、研究能力和步伐方面扩大这一“三角洲”。它能够在原创的、具有挑战性的、高度相关的实验中开发新技能，提供新数据并为人工智能、建模和快速采用远程访问和机器人等创新技术建立“数字线程”。 NWTF 采用包容性方法，提供具有世界一流能力的互连设施，并向所有英国研究人员开放。通过这种方式，NWTF 提供了一种大于其各个设施总和的统一方法，为行业提供单点联系，推动拉动环境的创新管道。 NWTF 是一个枢纽和节点组织，拥有跨 12 所大学（节点）的 23 个风洞，以及代表该集团协调各项举措的集中项目经理（枢纽）。它设有一个管理委员会 (MB)，由每个机构的一名成员和项目经理组成。它每季度召开一次会议，接受跨学科的国际咨询委员会 (AB) 的意见，该委员会每两年召开一次会议。 AB 主要由来自工业界的实验空气动力学家以及学术同事组成，包括那些对数值预测感兴趣的人。自 2014 年以来，NWTF 发展了一个社区，最近通过了八个涉及一系列主题的社区范围的子小组；所有人都可以参与。这些在线会议有来自英国、美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和日本的 40 多名学术和工业参与者参加，展示了 NWTF 在国际上处于领先地位的潜力。这一领导角色强调了针对风洞的网络活动的需求，这些活动捕获相关主题，包括远程访问；多用途和未来风洞；开发 CFD 实验数据库；新的、新颖的仪器；培训讲习班；研究人员的流动性和隧道管理者的最佳实践共享。另一个小组侧重于通常与一个关键行业的联合研究项目，但侧重于竞争前的科学。目前的子小组有波音、QinetiQ、空中客车、DSTL、BAE、JLR 和 ARUP 参与。该提案的一个关键方面是传播高质量的实验数据，而这些数据的创建成本高昂且耗时。它们的可用性将被公开，数据也将被整理，以便它们可以被一系列跨学科应用领域的其他利益相关者轻松访问和利用。该网络将建立在 UKRI 政策的基础上，使研究数据开放获取。它将确保在整个社区内交流最佳实践，并以一致的方式定义元数据、数据格式并通过长期可持续性保持相关性。高质量数据的可用性对于利用人工智能和机器学习等新技术来开发用于预测和控制的空气动力学模型至关重要。在世界范围内，没有其他类似的风洞数据传播活动。