April 2021 214 Emirates Aviation University (EAU), a leading educational institution for aeronautical and aviation studies in the Middle East, has introduced a wind tunnel to its facilities with a grant from Boeing Middle East.
The new wind tunnel will give students practical and experimental learning opportunities to examine flow physics around aircraft and other vehicles and machines.
Over 400 undergraduate and postgraduate students at EAU’s School of Engineering will benefit from the new wind tunnel. As a teaching tool, it will enable them to conduct experiments under different simulated wind force conditions.
The wind tunnel complements the EAU School of Engineering’s curriculum which has a focus on providing hands-on experience and research opportunities for Bachelor degree programmes such as Aerospace Design Projects, Experimental Techniques, and Flight Vehicle Dynamics & Stability; as well as Master’s degree programmes like Computational Fluid Dynamics, Engineering Analysis and Simulation, and Flight Dynamics and Simulation. The resource will also help enrich the courses, for instance with the visualisation of flow over airfoils and aircraft, and calculating values such as pressure, lift, drag and others.