Customer reservations for Cox LIRL rentals are available up to one year in advance of scheduled testing dates.įor technical and scheduling inquiries and commercial agreements please contact here. The Cox LIRL test facility and support staff are also available for customer rental on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Cox uses this in-house icing tunnel test capability to support new customer product development programs and in-house R&D activities. Wind tunnels are simply hollow tubes at one end, they have powerful fans that create a flow of air inside the tunnel. Wind tunnels, on the other hand, provide a controlled environment for this kind of testing. Other testing areas include airplane, UAV and micro UAV, truck, train, building, cycling. From swaying, unstable breezes to hurricane-force blasts, Mother Earths wind is a notoriously fickle condition, and thus, pretty much worthless for aerodynamics testing. The tunnel is used for vehicle development in the areas of aerodynamic, aeroacoustic and cooling analysis in both road and racing car design. Past research programs have included the study of mixed phase conditions and laboratory snow generation. The Monash University Wind Tunnel Facility has a broad range of aerodynamics testing capabilities. Our facility design includes state-of-the-art noise suppression technologies including vibration isolation and acoustic noise damping materials to provide our customers will a user friendly operating environment during testing.Ĭox performs research and development programs using the LIRL for a number of Government agencies including the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Program. The LIRL was originally designed and built in 1995, but is continually upgraded to meet the latest demands of the field.
This in-house test capability provides Cox with the capability to simulate the wide variety of icing environments encountered by aircraft under actual operating conditions of wind speed, liquid water content, droplet size and extreme low temperature conditions. See More Items from this Family (2) Added to Your Shopping Cart. The LeClerc Icing Research Laboratory (LIRL) is a world-class test facility for the study of aerospace icing conditions. The WT4401 wind tunnel is designed to provide a uniform flow rate and the powerful variable speed motor allows for precise air velocity control. Cox & Company is pleased to provide our valued customers with one of the finest icing wind tunnel test facilities and technical support staff in the aerospace industry today.