Facilities

The laboratory has a wide range of equipment for experiments on fluid flows:

Direct-drive turntables

There are three 1m diameter direct-drive rotating tables capable of rotation periods from 0.2 to 1000s. The speed of each table is computer controlled. These tables are equipped with signal and power slip rings and one has fluid slip rings.

Flume

A recirculating flume 4m long, 1.5m wide and a working depth of 0.2m with the capability of reversing flow direction.

Wave tank

A wave tank 6m long, 0.3m wide and a working depth of 0.5m with a wave maker for the generation of surface waves.

Cold room

A dedicated cold room is available with temperature control over the range of -25 to +35 C

back

Future events

Summer School 2012

A two-week summer school ‘Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment’ will be held in CMS from September 9 - 21, 2012. This school is an updated continuation of the Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics summer school held in DAMTP from 1991-2006. It will be held in collaboration with LadHyX at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and will include lectures, laboratory and computational projects. Students will stay in Churchill College.

Future details will be forthcoming. If you are interested in attending the school and wish to be placed on the mailing list please contact Ms Doris Allen (D.I.Allen@damtp.cam.ac.uk).

Anniversary Symposium 2014

It is planned to hold a symposium on ‘Experiments in Fluid Mechanics’ in 2014 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the laboratory.

Future details will be forthcoming. If you are interested in attending the symposium and wish to be placed on the mailing list please contact Ms Doris Allen (D.I.Allen@damtp.cam.ac.uk).