Overview
The fluids and Aerodynamics lab at Florida Tech is located in building 538 at the southern end of the compus near School of Psychology. It provides the necessary laboratory experiment to students of mechanical, Aerospace, Civil and Ocean Engineering. The low speed wind tunnel, major equipment in the lab which helps to visualize and measures forces and pressure on bodies. There are also several table top experiment to measure fluid properties and to verify the conservation laws of fluid motion.
Advanced instrumentation, such as doppler velocimeter and hot wire anemometer are also available for graduate teaching and research.
Personnel
Director: Chelakara S. Subramanian, Ph.D, P.Eng(U.K.)
Tel: (321)674-7614, email: subraman@fit.edu
Personnel:
1) Dr. C. S. Subramanian (x7614)
Director & associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering.
2) Mr. Dan Simpon (x7596)
Director of Laboratories.
3) Mr. Ed. Martin (x7182)
Laboratory Assistant.
4) Mr. Larry Buist (x7216)
Electronics technician
Teching Assistants:
Facility and Equipment
Fluids laboratory equipment
Armfield hydraulic bench
Armfield pipe friction apparatus
Armfield impinging jet apparatus
Armfield flow metes
Armfield losses-in-bends apparatus
TechQuipment Hele-Shaw apparatus
Falling ball viscometer-in-house designed and built
Dantec 55N CTA and CCA system
Pipe-flow apparatus for LDA experiment
Oscilloscopes and voltmeters
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| Test Performed on Hydraulic bench |
Impinging Jet and Losses-in-Bends |
Aerodynamics laboratory equipment
Martin Magnum-1600 fog generator
Fiber optic laser sheet flow visulization in-house built systems
CCD camera; image processing hardware for pentuim 120 computer
Sub2D and Sub3D aerodynamic simulation software: SoftwAerodynautics
Strain gage force balance and accesories
Digital pressure gage by Meriam, Inc
Lexl Ar-ion 8 W and 1 W Laser
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