{"id":15,"date":"2018-04-11T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T09:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2020-05-13T23:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T23:17:56","slug":"about-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/ecm\/capabilities\/about-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><b>Fluids<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Modular flow bench:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">syringe, peristaltic, and gear pumps<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cole-Parmer 2&#215;2 syringe pump, WZ-74905-39<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cole-Parmer Masterflex L\/S Digital Drive, peristaltic pump, 0.001 &#8211; 3400 ml\/min<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cole-Parmer Digital Gear Pump, 1 &#8211; 4200 ml\/min (low and high flow rate pump heads available) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">able to create steady state and low frequency oscillating volume flow from 0.001 up to 4200 ml\/min<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">closed loop system with pressure pulse damping (to be built)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">temperature control by inline and bath thermostat, Cole-Parmer Polystat Standard 6L Heat\/Cool Bath, -20 to 100C<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pressure measurement and pressure drop characterisation for internal flow components<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bench top laser enclosure, 3x1x1.5m working volume with modular optical bench\/flow bench setup inside<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laser visualisation of internal flow (in transparent phantoms<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stereoscopic PIV measurement of internal flows in rigid and flexible structures<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LaVision PIV system<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2x ProSX 5M camera, 12bit 2448&#215;2050 px, 14.2fps @ full resolution &gt; 15 fps @ 4M resolution, Scheimpflug system<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Litron 135mJ, 15Hz double pulse, dual cavity Nd:YAG laser system with line generator optics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design of validation experiments for fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simulation capability for parameterisation and qualification of experiment design<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Solids<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3D DIC system using dual 5MP cameras capable of resolving surface displacements and deformations on 3D objects<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 x 2D DIC systems for routine measurement of displacement and deformation in the plane of a surface<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Modular loading capability for deformation of small scale lightweight structures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bulge testing of thin polymer sheets for mechanical characterisation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Fluid Structure Interaction<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Integrated and simultaneous measurement of strain and flow field in flexible structures (to be developed).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Compute Cluster<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Small scale beowulf cluster, 6 nodes<\/li>\n<li>4 core dual thread intel i7, 16GB, per node<\/li>\n<li>Linux CentOS 7.4, warewulf cluster management<\/li>\n<li>SLURM load management<\/li>\n<li>ANSYS, OpenFOAM, Palabos<\/li>\n<li>full GNU development suite, GCC5, GCC7, MPI (mpich and openmpi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fluids Modular flow bench: syringe, peristaltic, and gear pumps Cole-Parmer 2&#215;2 syringe pump, WZ-74905-39 Cole-Parmer Masterflex L\/S Digital Drive, peristaltic pump, 0.001 &#8211; 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