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Characteristics
Acquisition
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Facility Fact

The Icing Research Tunnel can produce temperatures as low as
-30°F year round.


Ice accretion on airfoil installed in the Icing Research Tunnel Active ice accretion on model in the IRT
Acquisition
Imaging Technology
  • Video and still imaging cameras
  • High-speed photography
  • Digital cameras
  • Standard flow visualization techniques
  • Laser sheet flow visualization
  • Infrared thermography system

Data Processing

  • Real time acquisition supported with Escort D data system
  • 192 channels available for real time displays
  • Electronically scanned pressure (ESP) system
  • Scan rate of 10,000 ports/sec
  • Three point calibration every 15 minutes
  • Single and multi-cyclic scanning from one Record button
  • Standard (CRT) output and Nonstandard (custom data plots, calculations or specific data) outputs available
  • Facility workstations include a Silicon Graphics Model 4D Indigo system running IRIX 5.2 System V

Instrumentation

  • Facility instrumentation data are displayed on WDPF pages
  • Temperature measurements - oven inputs can handle type K-, T-, J-, or E-,thermocouples
  • Pressure measurements
  • Facility - Escort D data systems
  • Model - 186 channel ESP data system
  
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Last Updated: April 21, 2008
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