"Wind Tunnel Laboratory?" Su Wangting couldn't help frowning, "Isn't this an aid used in the design of aerospace vehicles? Why did you suddenly remember to ask this?"

Zhou Jingming smiled and didn't rush to answer. In fact, Su Wangting is not wrong at all, the wind tunnel laboratory was originally developed to meet the needs of aircraft design, and has played a huge role in promoting the research and development of aerospace engineering.

The so-called wind tunnel laboratory is a kind of pipe-like experimental equipment that artificially generates and controls the air flow, simulates the gas flow around the aircraft and even the entity, and can measure the effect of the air flow on the entity and observe physical phenomena.

The wind tunnel laboratory is one of the most commonly used and effective tools for conducting aerodynamic research.

Although originally used for the design of aircraft, with the development of industrial aerodynamics, wind tunnel laboratories have been widely used in transportation, housing construction and even the use of wind energy.

According to the classification of the airflow velocity generated in the wind tunnel laboratory, the wind tunnel can be divided into low-speed wind tunnels, high-speed wind tunnels, subsonic wind tunnels, transonic wind tunnels, supersonic wind tunnels, etc.

The application of the wind tunnel laboratory in the automotive industry began with the demand for Formula 1 motor racing, especially the emergence of the first Formula 1 car with spoiler fenders in 1968, which brought the car into the era of aerodynamics, and the wind tunnel laboratory also entered the sight of automotive engineers at that time.

Especially after entering the 21st century, the world's major automobile manufacturers have all their own independent automotive wind tunnel laboratories. The first automotive wind tunnel laboratory in China was established in 1999 and put into use in 2003.

However, the wind tunnel laboratory of Jilin University is not a full-scale wind tunnel laboratory, and there are certain flaws in the experimental accuracy, and then the time came in 2009, Tongji University, located in Shencheng, built the first and most advanced full-scale automobile wind tunnel laboratory in China, which can be regarded as filling the defects of this part of the country.

"The wind tunnel laboratory is not completely used in aerospace, and the automotive field has long begun to pay attention to its role in body styling design. After a long time, Zhou Jingming replied with a smile.

"I've heard about this, but I don't think there is a wind tunnel laboratory dedicated to automobiles in China. If you want to use the wind tunnel for experiments, don't you have to go abroad? And I've heard that this kind of laboratory is not cheap to use, and if you blow it, it will cost tens of millions!" Su Wangting said thoughtfully.

"Why don't you forget it, in terms of wind resistance coefficient, I'll go back and calculate it with the rest of the teachers, the wind tunnel laboratory is too expensive to use, it's not worth it!"

"Who said that I was going abroad to conduct wind tunnel tests?" As soon as Zhou Jingming said this, Su Wangting was even more puzzled, but Zhou Jingming's next sentence made Su Wangting's jaw drop instantly.

"I plan to build a wind tunnel laboratory at my own expense, under the name of the Future Innovation Studio, as an experimental equipment for this research team, and also to facilitate our subsequent research. ”

"What are you talking about? you're going to build your own wind tunnel lab?!"

"Where did you get so much money!"

Su Wangting was stunned for a few seconds, then stared at Zhou Jingming and asked in disbelief.

Just a simple use of the wind tunnel laboratory will cost close to one million, so if you build one yourself, wouldn't the cost required be an astronomical amount?

There are few domestic capital to establish wind tunnel laboratories, even if it is an automobile factory like FAW and Nanqi, without the support of the state, I am afraid that it will not be able to come up with so much funds for a while!

Zhou Jingming just has a gear factory that has just started, where did he get so much money to build a wind tunnel laboratory?

"Mr. Su, you forgot, I sold the technology of direct injection in the cylinder to Bosch, in addition to exchanging the production line technology, Bosch also needs to pay. Looking at Su Wangting's surprised expression, Zhou Jingming couldn't help but smile.

Su Wangting suddenly forgot about this stubble, but he still asked uneasily, "How much money did Bosch give you?" Your career is just improving, and there are many places to use money in the future, I think you should keep the money and use it on the blade in the future, and there is no hurry in the wind tunnel laboratory." ”

Zhou Jingming raised two fingers, "Twenty million!"

"Two ...... Twenty million! That's all?" Su Wangting didn't know what tone to use to speak.

In the 80s, what kind of concept was 20 million, that many people didn't dare to imagine, if ordinary people had this huge amount of money, I am afraid they would have fainted happily, how do you look at Zhou Jingming's appearance, it doesn't seem to feel a lot?

In fact, the patent fee issued by Bosch is not much, if it was just according to Zhou Jingming's idea at the beginning, Bosch did not ask for the exclusive right to act in Europe, the patent fee would be less than 10 million, but the rights demanded by Bosch have expanded, and the price paid will become larger.

From the perspective of the engine market in the whole world, the output value of the in-cylinder direct injection engine will definitely not be as little as 20 million, and 20 million is not even a fraction.

No bullying!

At present, Bosch did not call Zhou Jingming, but put it in a foreign account.

It took a long time for Su Wangting to slowly accept the fact that Zhou Jingming was already a multimillionaire, "Then do you really plan to use this money to build a wind tunnel laboratory in China?"

Su Wangting's voice even trembled a little, if it is really built, it will be the first wind tunnel laboratory dedicated to automobile design in China, which is definitely beneficial to improving the level of domestic automobile design!

Just thinking about it makes you feel excited!

"I definitely have to build it, but this money is not enough to build a full-scale wind tunnel laboratory, and I can't spend all the money on the wind tunnel, and the rest of the research in the future also needs to use money, I have to do both, so I plan to build a one-to-five scale wind tunnel laboratory, although the accuracy is not as good as a full-scale wind tunnel, but for us, it has been able to meet the design needs. Zhou Jingming nodded.

In fact, even if it is not a full-scale wind tunnel laboratory, it will cost at least 10 million yuan for a complete set, so from this point of view, the 20 million yuan obtained from Bosch is actually not much, and it cannot be said to be a small meaning, but it can only be regarded as a medium meaning.

After all, the automotive industry is a money-burning industry.

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