Goodrich Corporation’s Sensors and Integrated Systems team has donated an icing wind tunnel to Iowa State. The tunnel will be the university’s first wind tunnel to be able to perform icing physics research and will be housed in Iowa State’s wind simulation and testing (WiST) laboratory.
The WiST lab is a state-of-the-art experimental facility for conducting research, education, consulting, and outreach for applications in wind engineering, aeronautics, and industrial aerodynamics. The Goodrich icing wind tunnel will be used to study, among other things, icing effects on alternative energy generators such as wind turbines.
Goodrich currently works with Iowa State scientists on other environmentally focused technologies such as optimized gas turbine engine fuel burn for clean combustion. Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global supplier of systems and services to the aerospace and defense industry.