A three-story, $30-million hexagonal wind tunnel in Canada can recreate tornadoes and capture data to serve as a basis for developing twister-resistant structural design. It is the first facility of ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. The wind tunnel has evolved—we can create twisters and other phenomena at the touch of a button, says Maryam Refan, a researcher at the Wind ...

What is the WindEEE facility? It’s a wind research centre that is very different to conventional wind tunnels. For a start, the wind chamber is a hexagon 25 metres across. In the lower part of the ...

Canada'sWindEEE Research Institute, based in London, Ontario, has installed a short-range 3D WindScanner, based on ZephIR's Continuous Wave Lidar technology, and supplied by the Wind Energy Department ...

When a tornado is bearing down on you, 10 minutes may not sound like much time to find shelter. Yet that’s what Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has set as its target tornado warning lead ...

Deep in the heart of Ontario’s Tornado Alley, London scientists are using the world’s largest tornado simulator to get a better grip on the damage left by a devastating cluster of twisters that struck ...

Horia Hangan doesn't hesitate when you ask him why he finds wind so fascinating. "Because you can't see it," he says. "Always you have to guess it, you have to reveal it, which is fantastic." Now Dr.

Watch the video above: Western University researchers recreate conditions where a tornado destroys a house. LONDON, Ont. – Canada may not be as tornado-prone as our southern neighbours, but that ...

Horia Hangan considers it the ultimate toy, a project that will literally blow away the competition. The professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Western Ontario got word ...

With escalating concerns about global energy shortages and the impact of human activity on ecosystems, a great deal of attention has turned to advancing green technologies and discovering alternative ...