Once a 19th-century railway route, Catesby Tunnel is all set to revolutionise aerodynamic testing in the UK 💨
For decades now, what the public sees of aerodynamic testing has become very familiar. There’s a static car in a chamber, fan gusting wind over it to indicate how the vehicle carves through the air. A good deal of faith has been placed in the procedure, though obviously in the real world a car doesn’t remain still the whole time.
Essentially, it aims to be the best of both worlds. Catesby Tunnel is the real world but allows for the atmosphere to be controlled in a way that’s never possible with weather and wind changes in the actual real world. And, well, if it’s good enough for Multimatic to book out a whole chunk of testing time then it must be good. And not just conveniently located near its Brackley UK base.
Over to the professionals for an expert view on the old Victorian tunnel. Larry Holt, founder of Multimatic no less, is in the video. He said: “Compared to conventional wind tunnels, this is better because it’s real… In a moving ground plane wind tunnel, the car is stationary and the wind is blown over it by a massive fan and flow conditioning set-up, and a belt is arranged to move under the car at a coordinated speed.
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