Facilities

<Main Campus>


Large Wind Tunnel

  • Type: Horizontal closed circuit
  • Open test section: 3.6 m diameter x 4.5 m length
    (3.0 m diameter with outlet nozzle)
  • Max. speed: 30 m/s (40 m/s with outlet nozzle)
  • Turbulence level: 0.5 % (at 7 m/s)
  • Uniformity: 1.0 % (at 7 m/s)


Small Wind Tunnel

  • Type: Vertical closed circuit
  • Closed test section: 0.65 m x 0.65 m x 2 m length
  • Max. speed: 54 m/s
  • Turbulence level: 0.15 % (at 30 m/s)
  • Uniformity :0.1 % (at 30 m/s)


Middle Wind Tunnel

  • Type: Open Circuit
  • Open test section: 1.6 m diameter
  • Max. speed: 15 m/s


Small Wind Tunnel

  • Type: Horizontal closed circuit
  • Closed test section: 0.6 m x 0.6 m x 5.5 m length
  • Max. speed: 30 m/s
  • Turbulence level: 0.2 % (at 20 m/s)
  • Uniformity: 0.1 % (at 20 m/s)


Small Wind Tunnel

  • Type: Open circuit
  • Open test section: 0.35 m x 0.35 m
  • Max. speed: 20 m/s


Small Wind Tunnel

  • Type: Open circuit
  • Closed test section: 0.35 m x 0.35 m x 2 m length
  • Max. speed: 20 m/s
  • Measurement Devices

  • Six-component balance
  • Three-dimensional laser Doppler velocimetry
  • Particle image velocimetry
  • Automatic multiport pressure scanner


<University Farm>


30kW Open Air Rotor Research Facility

  • Rotor diameter: 10 m
  • Hub height: 13.4 m
  • Rated Power: 30 kW
  • Inflow Measurement Devices

  • Height: 8.3, 13.3, 18.3 m
  • Devices: Three-dimensional ultrasonic anemometers


<Aoyama-highlands Wind Turbine Test Site>


Open Air Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

  • Rotor diameter: 2 m
  • Blade span: 1.2 m
  • Hub height: 5 m
  • Inflow Measurement Devices

  • Height: 5 m
  • Devices: Three-dimensional ultrasonic anemometers, Cup-anemometers, Wind-vanes
  • Wake Measurement Devices

  • Height: 5 m
  • Devices: Three-dimensional ultrasonic anemometers


Fluid Engineering Laboratory for Energy and Environment
Division of Mechanical Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
Mie University

1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
AKAMATSU Sachiko (Secretary)
Phone: +81-59-231-9658
E-mail: sec_fel@mach.mie-u.ac.jp

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