The National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF), is an initiative in which 17 wind tunnels distributed across seven UK universities (host institutions) are made open access (for up to 25% of time) to external researchers in the UK and abroad, from both university and industry based.
[3] The EPSRC and ATI decided to fund the NWTF in order to match the UK talent base to world-class wind tunnel facilities.
Another aim was to establish a closer tie with industry, creating a pull-through environment and an intended spill-over of the collaboration and benefits to other sectors.
The current end date is December 2018, The NWTF has a management board (MB) that meets approximately every 3 months.
This is composed of a Principal Investigator from each of the current host institutions and the NWTF Project Manager.