Facilities

FACILITIES

 

MULTIPHASE FLOW

 

Application to Sprays and Internal Flows
This laboratory includes a fully equipped single-fluid and binary-fluid (liquid-gas) spray characterization facility, as well as an electrostatic atomization test facility. The lab also features unique, Exact Index of Refraction Matching (EIRM) capabilites which permit undistorted, non-intrusive, optical and light-scattering measurements of water flows in complex internal geometries. The laboratory is equipped with a multicomponent Phase-Doppler Velocimetry and Particle Size Analysis (PDV&PSA) system including customized phase discrimination capabilities, a Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) system, a High Speed Digital Video and Image Processing (HSDV&IP) system capable of up to 1000fps, a Laser Interferometry Skin Friction (LISF) measurement system, an Ultra High Resolution Digital Photography (UHRDP) system and computer-driven data acquisition with multipoint temperature measurement capabilities and traversing systems.


Binary (gas-liquid) High Volume Spray


PIV of Electrostatic Kerosene Spray Interacting with Grounded Object