Research

Stability Wind Tunnel

Flow visualization on a wing prototype in the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel—one of the nation’s largest university-operated wind tunnels with maximum speeds of 80 meters per second. The Stability Tunnel is a leading research facility for aeroacoustics and aerodynamics.

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Flow visualization in the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel—one of the nation’s largest university-operated wind tunnels with maximum speeds of 80 meters per second. The Stability Tunnel is a leading research facility for aeroacoustics and aerodynamics.

Our faculty and students are investigating, designing, and manufacturing ways to move boldly—and safely—through spaces both well traveled and unexplored.

We are:

Conducting cutting-edge research and generating novel technologies to traverse the skies and the oceans;
Designing and developing technologies to harvest clean, renewable energy from the motion of the atmosphere and the ocean;
Inventing instruments and sensors to probe the mysteries of the ocean, the atmosphere, and space;
Rising to—and meeting—today’s aerospace and ocean engineering challenges.

Our research is built upon a strong foundation of core competencies, which are the fundamental concepts that ground our program and lead our alumni to distinction.