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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local storms account for more than 60% of wind damage and Cdn$200 million annual losses each year, said Horia Hangan, a professor at the University of Western Ontario and the lead investigator of the ...

Withstanding the wind The WindEEE dome, used to gauge structural integrity in high winds, is being used to test a whale skeleton sculpture. Reta Ismail explains.

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 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.

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 ...