DNW: leading wind tunnel organization for high quality and innovative wind tunnel testing technology
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DNW, the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels, was established by the German Aerospace Center DLR and the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR.
DNW is a non-profit foundation under Dutch law, with headquarters in Marknesse in the Netherlands.
DNW is one of Europe’s most advanced and specialized organizations for wind tunnel testing. DNW’s six wind tunnels include subsonic, transonic and supersonic facilities, and provide experimental aerodynamic simulation capabilities to the user community at large.
DNW is proud to have been able to contribute to a successful and safe launch of the ESA’s Ariane 6 rocket. In 2017, a wind tunnel model designed and manufactured by NLR was tested in the DNW-HST and DNW-SST. The goal of these tests was to characterize the steady and unsteady loads on the total launcher and on the various launcher elements (e.g. boosters) during the transonic and supersonic flight phases.
At Marknesse, NLR and HVC have developed a new, large solar park. The produced power is fed into the national grid using the DNW-LLF electrical infrastructure. On 08 July 2024, this largest solar park in the Netherlands was officially opened. This solar park is situated on the NLR/DNW terrain in Marknesse and has 74.000 solar panels with a capacity of 46MWp and is able to supply 43-milion kilowatt solar power.
The power of a racecar in the volume of a cookie jar – German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) is proud to announce that experimental testing of our Electrically Powered engine Simulator (EPS) is scheduled for the end of this year.