If one has a turbulent fully developed wind tunnel with a relatively large test section (about 1 meter in diameter), what are the up-to-date important experimental investigations he should perform?
To my knowledge and experience, you may perform some studies such as: 1) Particle deposition in fully turbulent airflow; 2) Particle resuspension from wall surfaces under the effect of fully turbulent airflow. These are two issues related to the indoor air quality problems. I attached three of my previous publications for your references, but I found there are still problems, which need further study, especially the experimental work under wind tunnels.
Another point: we just finished experiment in wind tunnels to measure the particle removal effect by trees. We are preparing the manuscript, if you are interested, would you please tell me your email address, and then I will send you the manuscript once finished.
Lagrangian measurements in a wind tunnel is a very demanding task. If you are going to use the suggestions of Prof. Zhao about resuspension and deposition of particles, take a look at the open source particle tracking velocimetry consortium, www.openptv.net