Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics SB RAS

Institutskaya st. 4/5, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Phone: 7(383-2) 35-07-78, Fax:7(383-2) 35-22-68
E-mail: admin@itam.nsc.ru
Internet: http://www.itam.nsc.ru

Hypersonic hot-shot wind tunnel IT-302 M with flow stabilisation.
Wind tunnel «Supersonic combustion».
Wind tunnel T-325
Supersonic wind tunnel T-313
Wind tunnel T-324
Hypersonic wind tunnel T-326
Wind tunnel T-327
Hypersonic wind tunnel AT-303 with adiabatic compression
  Hypersonic hot-shot wind tunnel IT-302 M with flow stabilisation

Basic performance: hypersonic hot-shot wind tunnel with electric arc heater.
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/5, Novosibirsk.
Type, dimensions and form of working section: closed Eiffel chamber with rectangular cross-section 900x900x1200 mm, nozzle diameters - 300-500 mm.
Speed/Mach number: M = 5-15.
Reynolds number per 1 m: 0,5.106 - 0,5.108.
Stored energy: 1,5 MJ.
Maximum stagnation parameters: pressure 800 bar, temperature 3000 K.
Setting chamber volume: 8-03 m3.
Operation time: 40-200 ms.
Available measurements: forces and moments, pressure, thermal, streak photography, infrared imaging.
Measurement devices: - single-component strain-gage balance +/- 500 N;
- 20 fast-response pressure gages simultaneously;
- 20 heat flux gages simultaneously;
- shadowgraph with test field diameter of 230 mm.
Possibility of video-filming during the run: available.

Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Potential partners: Aerospatiale, ONERA, Dassault Aviation (France), DLR (Germany),
ESTEC/ESA (Netherlands).
Price per week: 400 $.
IT-302 M differs from known analogous by constant flow parameters during the run.

  Wind tunnel «Supersonic combustion» Basic performance: supersonic, closed, arc-heated.
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/5, Novosibirsk.
Type, dimensions and form of working section: open jet and channels, round (diameter from 50 to 90 mm), rectangular (40x60 mm, up to 2 m long).
Speed/Mach number: M = 1.0-3.0.
Reynolds number per 1 m: (0.3-7.5).107.
Way of Mach number: 5 nozzles with M=1.0; 1.5; 2.0; 2.5; 3.0.
Possible measurements: TV, photography, shadowgraphs, measurement of forces,
temperature, pressure distributions.
Types of sensors: - shadowgraph with diameter of 230 mm;
- up to 30 points of pressure measurements from 0 to 1 MPa;
- force measurements to 500 N.
Other capabilities of WT: - air heating up to 2700 K;
- possibility of gaseous and liquid fuels combustion;
- quick (3 s) reaching of any temperature;
- physics of combustion processes.

Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Potential partners: ONERA, CNES (France), DLR (Germany).
Price per week: 500 $.

  Wind tunnel T-325 General description this wind tunnel is supersonic, blow down, running time 60 min, low level of disturbances.
Location: Institutskaya st. 4/3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Type, form of section, dimensions of working section: closed, square, 200x200x600 mm.
Speed/Mach number: M = 0.6-4.7 changeable nozzles for M=0.6-1.2; 1.5; 2.2; 2.5; 3; 3.5; 4.
Reynolds number: (5-100).106[1/m].
Material of wind tunnel walls: steel.
Possible measurements: pressure distributions, hot-wire, calorimetric,
visualisation: soot-oil coatings, sublimated coatings, interferograms,
shadowgraphs.
Measuring devices: - 3-dimensional traverse gear for moving the probes, hot-wire
constant current or temperature with frequency range up to 200 kHz;
- hot-wire probes with wire diameter 3; 4.5; 6 microns;
- 10 bit AD converter 1 mks with memory on 4096 points;
- 8 bit AD converter 0.05 mks with memory on 4096 points;
- optical shadow device.
Other capabilities of WT: - stabilisation of flow temperature within +/- 0.5 C,
cooling of models, input and investigation of controlled flow disturbances.

Potential partners: Aerospatiale, ONERA, CNES (France), DLR (Germany).
Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance. Price per week: 5000 $.

  Supersonic wind tunnel T-313 General characteristics: supersonic blowdown wind tunnel driven from air balloons
(compressed up to 20 atm).
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Type, cross-section, test section dimensions: closed rectangular test section 600x600 mm, length - 2.5 m.
Flow velocity: Mach number M=2-7.
Unit Reynolds number: (5-60).106[1/m].
Control method: Automated control system of stagnation pressure in setting chamber.
Gas holders: total volume 5000 m3 and pressure PO=20 atm.
Material of test section walls: stainless steel.
Available measurements: forces and moments, pressure, oil-film visualisation,
shadowgraphy, schlieren method, laser sheet, interferometry, hot wire anemometry.
Measuring devices: - four-component mechanical balance
x - 0-125 kg
y - 0-500 kg
Mz - 0-84 kgm
Mx - 0-60 kgm
- set of strain-gage balances for various loads
- schlieren device with the test field diameter 200 mm
- multichannel pressure meter with 100 channels, class of
accuracy 0.3.
Complementary possibilities: simultaneous tests of two models, possibilities of solving various problems of aerodynamic interference, boundary layers characteristics, boundary layer transition, separated flows, etc.

Potential partners: Aerospatiale, ONERA, Dassault Aviation (France), DLR (Germany), ESTEC/ESA (Netherlands), CIRA (Italy).
Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Price per week: 20000 $.

  Wind tunnel T-324 Basic performances: subsonic, closed circuit, low turbulent.
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Type, dimensions and form of working section: closed, rectangular, 1.1.4 m.
Speed (Mach number): 2-80 m/s.
Reynolds number: (0.13-5.3).106 [1/m].
Way of speed (Mach) changing automatic from analogue control.
Type of compressor: direct current, 640 kW.
Type and capacity of engine: axial, 1-staged, 20 wooden blades.
Material of WT construction: aviation plywood.
Possible measurements: forces and moments, pressure distribution, smoke wire
visualisation, oil-soot visualisation, noise distribution, hot-wire anemometry, filming.
Type of measuring devices:
- one-component balance +/- 25 N.
Other capabilities of WT:
- turbulence level control from 0.001% to several percent;
- testing of several models simultaneously;
- testing of models to 4 m size in the tunnel chamber.
Potential partners: DLR, Stuttgart University, Berlin Technical University (Germany), Royal Technological Institute (Sweden).
Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Price per week: 300 $.

  Hypersonic wind tunnel T-326 General characteristics: hypersonic blowdown wind tunnel with Eiffel chamber.
Ohm air heater for M<= 10 and plasma heater for M.=12.
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Type, cross-section, test section dimensions: Eiffel chamber, nozzle diameter - 200 mm. Removable axissymmetric contoured nozzles for M=6,8,10,12 and 14. Conic nozzle for M=14.
Reynolds number: up to 4.106[1/m].
Control method: - a system for automated maintenance of assigned stagnation pressure and temperature
- gas holders 4400 m3x20 atm. And 100 m3x200 atm;
- heaters driven by motor-generator 6000 MW and thyristor
converter 14 kVx100 A.
Material of test section walls: stainless steel.
Available measurements: heat flux distribution on the model surface, pressure distribution with external gages, balance measurements.
Type of measurement devices:
- external cooled three-component balance based on alpha-mechanism (N, T and Mz components);
- schlieren device with the field diameter 200 mm;
- video filming.
Potential partners: ONERA (France), DLR (Germany), ESTEC/ESA (Netherlands).
Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Price per week: 1500 $.

  Wind tunnel T-327 Basic performances: hypersonic nitrogen blowdown wind tunnel with graphite heater, conical nozzle in an open jet configuration, exhaust to vacuum tank.
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Type, dimensions and form of working section: Open jet configuration, rectangular test section 0,45.0,4.0,5 m, conical nozzle, diameter of homogeneous flow core about 0.1 m, nozzles with M=16, 18, 20, 22, 24. Reynolds number: up to 106[1/m].
Operation time: 40 s.
Vacuum pumps efficiently: 3 m3/s.
Material of WT construction: stainless steel.
Possible measurements: forces and moments, heat transfer, pilot pressure, density distribution, density fluctuation, electron-optical visualisation.
Measurement equipment:
- three-component strain-gage balance: +/- 20 N for X,Y and 0.21 Nm for Mz;
- infrared imaging system, 1 frame/s, spectrum range 1-6 microns;
- optical system for mean and fluctuating density measurements on the basis of nitrogen electron-beam florescence.
Potential partners: ONERA (France), DLR (Germany), ESTEC/ESA (Netherlands).
Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Price per week: 400 $.

  Hypersonic wind tunnel AT-303 with adiabatic compression General characteristics: wind tunnel of adiabatic compression with pressure multipliers.
Location: ITAM, Institutskaya st. 4/18, Novosibirsk, 630090
Type, cross-section, test section dimensions: Eiffel chamber, nozzle diameter 300 and 600 mm.
Flow velocity: Mach number M=6-20.
Unit Reynolds number: full-scale Reynolds number up to 300.106[1/m].
Maximum stagnation parameters: pressure 3000 atm, temperature 2500 K.
Setting chamber volume: 6 litters.
Running time: 40-500 ms.
Available measurements: forces and moments, pressure, heat fluxes, high-speed filming, infrared imaging.
Measurement devices:
- single-component strain-gage balance: +/- 500 N;
- 20 fast-response pressure gages simultaneously;
- 20 heat flux gages simultaneously;
- shadowgraph with test field diameter of 230 mm.
Potential partners: Aerospatiale, ONERA, Dassault Aviation (France), DLR (Germany), ESTEC/ESA (Netherlands).
Canteen Hotel: Nearest hotel 3* within 20 minute’s walking distance.
Price per week: 3000-6000 $.
No analogous in the world, pure flow of air and other gases, constant flow parameters, running time suitable to study the processes of mixing and combustion.