
Lab Facilities




Turbulent Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel
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In-house designed, 3D-printed wind tunnel to generate fully developed turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) in the test section.
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Wind tunnel length: 4 m
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Test section: 400 mm (width) x 50 mm (height) x 500 mm (length)
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Fully developed TBLs thickness: 25 mm
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Axial fan: FKD 16-XL inline fan (Max 4,274 CFM) - Data & Dimensions
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Tunnel velocity: 3 m/s ~ 20 m/s
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Channel Reynolds number (ReD): 17,000 ~ 88,000
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Friction Reynolds number (Re_tau): 250 ~ 1,000




Convection Heat Transfer Wind Tunnel
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In-house designed, 3D-printed wind tunnel for internal flow convection heat transfer experiments.
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Wind tunnel length: 2 m
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Test section: 22 mm (width) x 22 mm (height) x 400 mm (length)
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Flow meter: Air & Oxygen mass flow meters - Specs & User's Manual
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Axial fan: Ruck 14" Prime Evo EC (Max 1,930 CFM) - Data & Dimensions
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Power supply: Siglent Technologies SPD3303C DC Power Supply
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Tunnel velocity: 0 ~ 3 m/s
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Channel Reynolds number (ReD): ~ 3,616




External Flow Wind Tunnel
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Test section: 11.5" (width) x 11.5" (Height) x 19" (length)
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Tunnel velocity: 0 ~ 40 mph




2D Particle Image Velocimetry
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Vendor: TSI Incorporated
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Camera: Nikon Powerview 9MP camera
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Laser: EverGreen Nd:YAG pulsed laser (200 mJ/pulse @15 Hz and 532 nm)​​
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Software: 4G Insight & TecPlot
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Synchronizer: LaserPulse™ Synchronizer Model 610036
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Particle generator: TSI oil droplet generator 9307-6
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Work station: Dell Intel dual Xeon silver 8 core, 3 GHz processors, 512GB SSD, 2TB hard drive (7,200 rpm), 32 GB Ram, Windows 10 Pro
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High Speed Infrared Camera
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Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
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Frame rate (full window): 50 Hz
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Max frame rate (at min window of 620 x 120): 200 Hz
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Lens: 45 FOV
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Software: ResearchIR Max




Single Point Laser Doppler Vibrometer
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Max frequency: 22 kHz
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Max velocity resolution: 0.02 um/s




Shear Stress Sensor
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Model type: CS-0510
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Calibration data (updated on May 2022)
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Max shear stress: 10 Pa
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Dynamic sensitivity (calibrated): 290 mV/Pa
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Resolution: 0.1 mPa
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Bandwidth: 0.75 kHz
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Digital Micro Manometer
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Resolution: 0.001 Pa



Data Acquisition & Generation Devices
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Function generator: Tektronix AFG-1062
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Digital oscilloscope: Tektronix TBS 1052-B




High Performance Desktop Computers



3D Printers