Experimental & Computational Laboratory for the Analysis of Turbulence
ECLAT is renowned for work on measurement and prediction of flows and turbulence in both fundamental and applied problems such as heat exchangers, internal combustion engines, stirred reactors, pharmaceutical inhalers, multiphase flow dynamics, biomedical fluid mechanics, complex fluids and nanoparticle technology.
Facilities include a wide range of instrumentation for fluid flow measurement and characterisation of complex fluids and multiphase systems such as 2- and 4-channel laser anemometers, fast (13kHz) 3-D particle image velocimeter, atomic force microscope, viscometers, interfacial rheometers, optical shearing microscope, laser light scattering and zeta potential. Computing facilities include access to the new School server farm that is progressively being expanded to its 1500 processor maximum capacity.