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Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
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French Aerospace Lab
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Location
Rue Edmond Rostand, ONERA - Saclay, Saclay, PO: 91400 (France)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
France
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 1947
Scientific Description
GMT offers a large panel of wind tunnels, for aerodynamic and acoustic test, covering very low Mach number to Mach 21: 5 continuous wind tunnel covering Low speed (few m/s) up to Mach 3.1; 3 blow-down wind tunnels covering Mach 0.1 up to Mach 21; 4 dedicated wind tunnels for specific applications.Wind tunnels are located in 3 different areas in France: Modane-Avrieux, Le Fauga-Mauzac (near Toulouse) and Saclay (close to Paris).
RI Keywords
S2MA, CEPRA19, Aerodynamics, BD2, S3MA, Wind tunnels, Reynolds, Transonic, Mach, Supersonic, S1MA, Aeroacoustics, S4B, S4A, Nozzle test bench, Subsonic
Classifications
RI Category
Aerospace and aerodynamics research facilities
Scientific Domain
Engineering and Energy
Services
Wind tunnel tests
for product development and R&D activities.
Equipment
Store release
Jettison test and captive trajectory system.
Balance
Force measurements (6 components) on complete model or wall balance for half Model.
Acoustics measurements
for aero-acoustic needs.
Particle Image Velocimetry
PIV - 3 components.
Model Deformation Measurement
MDM.
Pressure Sensitive Paint
Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP)
Collaborations
Networks
STAI
SATA
EREA
Date of last update: 08/02/2017
