Facilities and equipment
The Hydraulics Laboratory has the following facilities, measurement instruments and numerical tools available:
Experimental facilities
- Maximum pump capacity: 500l /s or 400l/s (Closed circuits) with head = 5 - 6 mWC
- Test flumes in laboratory halls (straight flumes, river bend flume, open channel confluence flume, navigation lock model, ...)
- Calibration (towing) flume (1.00 x 1.50 m² x 44 m)
- Calibration tanks and vessels (sediment concentration)
- Educational demonstration models
- Versatile facilities for model testing (contract research)
Measurement equipment
- Propeller current meters, pitot tubes, waterlevel recorders, electromagnetic and ultrasonic velocity meters
- Piezometers, manometers, rotameters, ...
- Volumetric, ultrasonic and electromagnetic discharge meters
- Acoustic Doppler Velocimeters
- Optical techniques for velocity measurements: surface PIV and PTV
- Optical techniques for water surface tracking
- Sieve Analysis of sediments, dry installation,
- Sediment transport registration instruments
- Many of these instruments are available for field studies as well
Numerical Tools
- Idealized models for long term bed evolution
- 1D and 2D conceptual models for open channel confluences
- River routing models
- Large-Eddy Simulations (experience in OpenFOAM and Ansys Fluent)
- Techniques for modal decomposition of large datasets
Miscellaneous
- Workshop facilities
- Extensive technical library (books, journals, theses, reports,...)