FIU's Wall of Wind Gets $15M for Another Fan, WOW 2.0

Miami Engineering Facility Helps Hurricane Researchers Simulate Storms

MIAMI, FL - APRIL 12: A television reporter takes pictures of the twelve fans, that create what is called a Wall of Wind, at the Florida International University engineering center, the nation’s only university research facility that is capable of simulating a Category 5 hurricane with wind-driven rain on April 12, 2013 in Miami, Florida. The Wall of Wind is used to help test the hurricane resiliency of everything from private homes to warehouses to light poles. The Tropical Meteorology Research Project at CSU announced they feel this years hurricane forecast will produce 18 named storms. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images News / Getty Images

(Miami, FL) - The Florida Legislature cutting a 15-million dollar check to Florida International University to add another huge fan to FIU’s Wall of Wind.

The funding presented by Florida state Rep. Alex Rizo and state Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez to FIU President Jeanette M. Nuñez to advance hurricane research with Wall of Wind 2.0.

The second fan will allow researchers to simulate a Category 5 hurricane to test structures against winds of up to 200 mph.

WOW 2.0 will also be used to study the combined effects of extreme winds, storm surge, waves and flooding.


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