PFM powered force model rotor. This image shows one possible type of ice accretion that the Icing Tunnel can produce.
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Data Acquisition
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Imaging Technology
- Video and still imaging cameras
- High-speed photography
- Digital cameras
- Standard flow visualization techniques
- Infrared thermography system
Data Processing
- Real time acquisition supported with Escort D data system
- 192 channels available for real time displays
- Electronically scanned pressure (ESP) system
- Scan rate of 10,000 ports/sec
- Three point calibration every 15 minutes
- Single and multi-cyclic scanning from one Record button
- Standard (CRT) output and Nonstandard (custom data plots, calculations or specific data) outputs available
Instrumentation
- Facility instrumentation data are displayed on WDPF pages
- Temperature measurements – oven inputs can handle type K-, T-, J-, or E-,thermocouples
- Pressure measurements
- Facility – Escort D data systems
- Model – 186 channel ESP data system
Icing Research Tunnel Fact Sheet
GRC Research Facilities
Find out more about the research facilities at NASA’s Glenn Research Center
