Thermal Fluids Labs
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTATION II, ME 436
The Thermal Fluid Laboratory is mainly used for teaching the practical component of subjects covered in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer.
Equipment includes:
- Dead weight tester (440 mm x 440 mm x 440 mm)
- Rotating cylinder viscometer
- Falling ball viscometer
- Hydrostatic force test setup
- Air flow measurement bench
- A wind tunnel with 1 ft cross section and maximum velocity of 150 ft/s
- A small calibration wind tunnel
- A Schlieren Optical system
- Smoke and laser sheet flow visualization system
- Centrifugal pump test cell
- Centrifugal fan test cell
- A Pelton turbine
- Jet impact apparatus
- Flow visualization bench
- Precision RTD thermometers
- Thermocouples
- Infrared thermometers
- Humidity sensors
- Precision electronic scales with computer interface
- data acquisition systems
- Compressible flow bench
- Pressure distribution in a converging/diverging nozzle
- Junkers calorimeter
- Bomb calorimeter
- Heating/cooling constant temperature bath/circulators
- Double pipe heat exchanger
- Heat transfer bench w/various heat exchangers configurations
- Internal flow heat transfer apparatus
- Simulated ground loop heat pump system
- Free convection test setup
- Radiation test setup
