NWTF Conference 2023

Thank you to everyone who took part in the NWTF Conference at the University of Birmingham on the 25th and 26th of May.

The downloadable presentations are highlighted on the schedule below and are followed by the posters.

Day 1 – 25th May 2023

Time	Session	Presenter/Topic
09:30-10:30	Conference Registration & Coffee Reception	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
10:30-10:35	Welcome	Mike Jesson – Birmingham
10.35-10.50	About the NWTF	Jonathan Morrison – Imperial
10:50-12:00	Session 1 Research Capabilities at NWTFs – Art of the Possible.  (Chair: Chetan Jagadeesh)  6 x 10 minute presentations with 2 minutes for questions and changeover.	Renan Soares – Southampton On the Land, Air and Sea – Recent Applied Aerodynamics Experiments the University of Southampton facilities Mahdi Azarpeyvand – Bristol Experimental Aeroacoustic Research at Bristol David Soper – Birmingham  Unlocking future freight transport capability through novel moving model vehicle aerodynamics research David Birch – Surrey  How low can you go? The EnFlo Environmental Wind Tunnel and its measurement challenges Magnus Gregory – Southampton Underwater PIV benchmark at the University of Southampton Boldrewood Towing Tank David Angland – Southampton University of Southampton anechoic wind tunnel –capabilities, current work and future plans
12:00-13:00	Lunch	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
13:00-14:00	Session 2 Snapshot of Research (Chair: Christina Vanderwell) 5 x10 minute presentations with 2 minutes for questions and changeover	Richard Green – Glasgow Performance of non-conventional aircraft tail configurations Kwing-So Choi – Nottingham Leading-edge flow separation control using DBD plasma: Effect of the Reynolds number Olivier Cadot – Liverpool An experimental sensitivity analysis of the aerodynamics of a simplified ground vehicle to the body clearance, yaw and pitch Isabella Fumerola – Imperial The ‘Big and Slow’ surface wave experiment for skin friction drag reduction Matteo Carpenteri – Surrey  Non-neutral flows: simulating the full range of atmospheric conditions in the EnFlo Environmental Wind Tunnel
14:00-14:30	Coffee Break	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
14:30-15:30	Session 3   Industry Presentations  (Chair: Ian Smith)  5 x 10 minute presentations with 2 minutes for questions and changeover	Edward Jinks  Siemens Acoustic Wind Tunnel Testing Roger Gardner – UK ARC Nicolas Oettle – JLR Wind tunnel needs from the perspective of an automotive manufacturer David Roberts – ARA Steven Lawson – MBDA
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
16:00-16:45	Key Speaker (Intro: Paul White)	Steve Rowley – QinetiQ Exploitation pathways – joining the dots between research and industry
16:45-17:00	Close	Mike Jesson
17:00-18:00	NWTF Management Board Meeting	Management Board Members
18:00-18:30	Drinks Reception
18:30 – 20:00	Conference Dinner  (Assembly Room)

Day 2 – 26th May 2023

Time	Session	Presenter/Topic
08:30-09:30	Conference Registration	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
09:30-09:40	Welcome	Mike Jesson – Birmingham
09:40-10:40	Session 4  Snapshot of High Speed Research  (Chair: David Roberts) 5 x 10 minute presentations with 2 minute questions and change over	Mark Quinn – Manchester Intake unstart testing in the University of Manchester HSST Kshitij Sabnis – Cambridge Transonic aerodynamics of aircraft engine nacelles in off-design conditions Matthew McGilvray – Oxford 1. Testing of aeroheating during satellite demise in the Oxford T6 Stalker Tunnel  2. Combined shock speed and spectral radiance probe for use in a hypervelocity shock tube Luke Doherty – Oxford 1. Internal heat transfer measurements on hollow bodies in rarefied flow  2. Effects of macro-roughness on the supersonic lateral separation of spheres in the Oxford High Density Tunnel  3. Development and application of Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) for hypersonic free-flight. Christopher Wheeler – Oxford Surface pressure measurements on a free-flying cone at  Mach 7 using pressure sensitive paint
10:40-11:10	Coffee Break	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
11:10-12:00	Key Speaker (Intro: Matthew McGilvray)	Johan Steelant – ESA Multipurpose and Future of Wind Tunnels
12:00-13:00	Lunch	Poster Session – Current & New Facilities
13:00-13:30	Key Speaker (Intro: Kwing-So Choi)	Gary Page – Loughborough NWTF Experimental Database
13:30-14:00	Session 5  NWTF Subgroup Activities (Chair: Richard Green) 5 minutes per presenter	Ashley Evans – Boeing Novel Instrumentation Subgroup – Industry requirements Paul White – Airbus Tunnel Managers Forum  Mahdi Azarpeyvand – Bristol  NWTF Group Projects  Richard Green – Glasgow Training Workshops Subgroup Raul Vazquez-Diaz – Rolls Royce TRL5+ Wind Tunnels
14:00-14:30	Coffee Break	Poster Session
14:30-15:30	Panel Session Vision for the NWTF  5 minute presentation from panellists followed by audience Q&A	Steve Rowley – QinetiQ – Host Joanthan Morrison – Imperial Raul Vazquez-Diaz – Rolls Royce Stephen Lawson – MBDA Stuart Gates – ATI Mike Simpson – EPSRC
15:30-15:40	Close	Prof Jonathan Morrison – Imperial

Posters:

Birmingham:

ABL Wind Tunnel

TRAIN Rig

Bristol:

Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel

New: AR Collar Wind Tunnel

New: Pressure Neutral Wind Tunnel

Cambridge:

Transonic/Supersonic Wind Tunnel

City:

Transonic Wind Tunnel

Low Turbulence Wind Tunnel

Cranfield:

8×6 Wind Tunnel

Icing Wind Tunnel

Glasgow:

deHavilland Wind Tunnel

Imperial College:

Supersonic Wind Tunnel

10×5 Wind Tunnel

Loughborough:

Automotive Wind Tunnel

Oxford:

T6 Tunnel

Low Density Tunnel

High Density Tunnel

New Facilities

Southampton:

RJ Mitchell Wind Tunnel

Tow Tank

Anechoic Wind Tunnel

Surrey:

EnFlo Wind Tunnel