The Fluids, Turbulence Control & Renewable Energy Lab focuses on experimental fluid dynamics in both air and water flows. Key facilities in our lab include:

1) Boundary Layer and Subsonic Wind Tunnel (BLAST) with boundary layer flow test section of 2.8 m width x 2.1 m height x 30 m length, and subsonic test section of 1.8 m width x 2.1 m height x 4 m length and up to 50 m/s wind speed. More details and figures of BLAST can be found here.

2) State-of-art time-resolved 3D particle image velocimetry (PIV) system to measure the instantaneous flow features, particle motions and structure dynamics.

3) Temperature-adjustable flow visualization water channel, with test section of 0.2m X 0.2m X 2m and freestream velocity up to 1.3 m/s. The incoming flow temperature can be set lower than ambient.

BLAST and time-resolved PIV system:

Instantaneous flows in the wake of a wind turbine, captured by time-resolved PIV system