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Turbulent Shear Flow Laboratory

This is an experimental fluid mechanics laboratory specializing in the study of turbulent shear flows. The laboratory has two large wind tunnels and one small portable wind tunnel. The large tunnels are designed for a series of experiments in turbulent boundary layers and are fully instrumented for automated measurements.


5m long working section View of wind tunnel fan
Boundary layer wind tunnel Curved working section

Instrumentation includes 32 channels of simultaneous data acquistion with signal conditioning, 16 channels of hot-wire anemometery, novel skin friction measuring techniques, and capability for dual-plane stereoscopic PIV (particle image velocimetry). Skin friction gage
Hot-film and hot-wire arrays


Members of the lab also make field measurements on the Utah salt-flats at the SLTEST facility.

 Students taking field measurements on Utah salt flats
SLTEST site being set up

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