The European Windtunnel Association known by the acronym EWA is a Network of Excellence for aeronautical applications and advanced measuring technologies funded by the European Commission under its Sixth Framework Programme.
The network consists of 14 member organizations from 8 European countries, including 3 industrial organizations who operate and/or use wind tunnels, 3 commercial wind tunnel operators, 7 research organisations and one organisation for post-doctoral education. VZLU is on of the EWA member.
The aim behind EWA is to integrate and strengthen European Aeronautical Research by building lasting relationships and inter-dependencies between the major European wind tunnel operators and developers of advanced measuring technologies.
The wind tunnels of the EWA members are of vital importance for industrial wind tunnel testing for aeronautics in Europe. In addition 5 members are leading European developers of advanced measuring technologies for wind tunnels.
The range of members involved will enable them to offer to researchers and the global aerospace industry a comprehensive set of services. It will also enable researchers to bring new experimental techniques into operation in industrial wind tunnels much faster than in the past.
Methods for harmonising standards and for assessing the quality of experimental simulation as well as methods to harmonise wind tunnel test techniques will be developed jointly by the members. This will provide considerable improvements in data quality and in cost reduction for wind tunnel testing.
More informatio on http://www.eu-ewa.aero
