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Facilities
Rotating Tank
Location: Fluids Laboratory/Central area
The
study of rotating fluid flows, either dominated by centrifugal or
Coriolis forces is studied experimentally in our new rotating tank
facility. There are two interchangeable platforms, a small 1m diameter
platform which rotates at 1 rev/s and a larger 2.5m platform which
rotates at much slower rates. The construction of the platform was
funded by the Equipment Grant associated with an EPSRC Advanced
Fellowship, with further modifications to study centrifugal separations
constructed with a Royal Society Equipment Fund. The platform was
designed by a Fourth Design Team and further modifications by Andre
Nicolle, Mark Landeryou and Christian Klettner. Final year students
undertaking their dissertation with the group are providing new design
elements to the platform.
Coastal and Deep Water Wave Tank
Location: Fluids Laboratory/Side area
In
2006, the redesign and commissioning of the coastal and deep water wave
tanks in the fluids laboratory were completed. The design led by Dr Kevin Drake and
Edinburgh Design team. This was funded by SRIFII funding, led by Dr
Eames, in collaboration with Prof Simons (Civil Engineering, UCL) and
Dr Diane Horne (Birkbeck College). This is a major facility for UCL,
enabling detailed studies of waves, currents and their complex
interaction with fixed and moving bodies.
Enviromental Testing Tanks
Location: Eames Laboratory
Also
in 2006, environmental testing tanks were completed in the Eames
Laboratory, to permit the study of vortices and gravity currents in
constrained geometries. This facility was designed by Dr Alan
Hinds (Mathematics), supervised by Dr Robb McDonald and Prof Ted
Johnson, and funded by UCL Central Research Fund. Some of the initial
results from this facility are now coming to fruition.
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Facilities
Computing Laboratories
Location: Room 401
We use advanced tools to investigate multiscale
flow phenomenon numerically. We have developed inhouse FEM codes,
validated for planar and axisymmetric flows to Re=5000. The codes have
been written with MPI to test on our 8 node cluster, with an
imminent roll out to UCL's research computational facility. The code
has been developed by Andre Nicolle and Mark Landeryou and with further
extensions to include ALE by Christian Klettner. We have workstations
and computers equiped with a wide variety of software drawing on
shareware and commercial software to study fluid flows.
Laser Diagnostics
Location: Fluids/ IC Engine Laboratory
Funding from SRIFII enable the Department of Mechanical
Engineering to purchase advanced laser diagnostics to study and measure
flow fields.
PIV -
LDV-
High speed camera
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