FACILITIES

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

COMPUTING FACILITY
High performance computing facility on campus

KA-BAND MOBILE RADAR
Ka-band mobile radar on trucks

VORTECH FACILITY
The VorTECH Tornado Simulator

WIND TUNNEL
The boundary layer wind tunnel

WEST TEXAS MESONET
The West Texas Mesonet

DEBRIS IMPACT FACILITY
Debris Impact Facility (DIF)

Up to Category 5 Hurricane Wind simulations
Multi-Scale Testing (full-, large-, small-scale)
Destructive Testing (to predict progressive failures in buildings and infrastructure elements)
Wind-Driven Rain simulations (to study water intrusion)
Non-synoptic downburst wind flow facility Automated roughness system
Automated 3-axis traverse system
Three component particle-image velocimetry (PIV) system and other state of the art pressure and load monitoring equipment

WALL OF WIND
The 12 fans of the Wall of Wind

TEST MODEL
Model under test

WALL OF WIND
The building, operations, and control center

TEST MODEL
Testing in the WOW

TEST MODEL OF A HIGH-SET MODEL
Testing a high-set building model in the WOW

- - Hurricane risk modeling (Florida Public Hurricane and Flood Loss Models)
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) System for field monitoring of hurricane pressures on buildings
  - Portable Zephir300 Lidar system from Campbell Scientific for near-surface wind profile characterization
  - Coastal Processes Research Group, including a coastal wave/weather/tide station at Sebastian Inlet, FL
  - Indian River Lagoon Research Institute,including:
    - Indian River Lagoon set-up/surge forecast product
    - Three wave capable Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler in the Banana River
- - Online circulation and wave modeling system and ensemble surge and wave modeling system for the Florida east coast
  - Hurricane post-disaster reconnaissance missions