The Department hosts excellent facilities for research and teaching, with some of the equipment being unique to the UK.

Our facilities support computational and experimental projects in fluid mechanics, structural analysis, composites, optimisation and control and aircraft design.

For enquiries about the use of facilities please contact either:

Facilities

Space Engineering Lab

Space Engineering Lab

The Lab supports research into spacecraft propulsion and deployable structures.
Flume

Hydrodynamics Flume

The Flume facility is highly flexible and can accommodate a broad range of research projects.
Visualisation Wall

Visualisation Wall

The Visualisation Wall allows our researchers to interactively inspect large computational and experimental datasets containing hundreds of millions of points.

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10x5 Wind Tunnel

10 x 5 Wind Tunnel

Formerly known as the Honda Wind Tunnel, the Department's flagship wind tunnel allows for low-speed aerodynamics research.
T1 and T2 Wind Tunnels

T1 and T2 Wind Tunnels

Our T1 and T2 Wind Tunnels provide sophisticated facilities for teaching and research in the field of experimental aerodynamics.
Wind tunnel laboratory

Other Wind Tunnels and Water Equipment

The Department hosts eight Wind Tunnels in total and a facility that uses water as the working medium.

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Flight Simulator

Flight Simulator

Our full motion Flight Simulator can be programmed to accurately simulate almost any type of aircraft.

Computing Resources

The Department hosts two High Performance Beowulf clusters, an Itanium server and a large number of Linux and Unix workstations, as well as Windows PCs.
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Structural Testing

Testing of materials, compression and tension, fatigue, environment, high energy and gravitational impacts are available.

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Composites Centre

The Centre hosts facilities used in the manufacture and characterisation, as well as testing of composites.

Drone in flight arena

Aerial Robotics

A range of flight arenas, testing labs and unmanned aerial vehicles are available.
Laser printer

Other Facilities

Additional facilities include 3D printers, laser cutters and more.

Contact

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Study

Why study aeronautics?
Cutting edge aerospace teaching

Opportunities

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10x5 Wind Tunnel