EFMWR Facilities
Research and teaching are supported by state of the art experimental, computational, and data acquisition facilities.
The Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory includes a large constant-head tank, a 4.3-m wide sediment scour flume, a 24-m long tilting flume, a recirculating flume for cohesive sediment resuspension, a recirculating salt-water flume, a density-stratified towing tank, and a 24-m long wave tank. Instrumentation includes Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry (ADV), Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), and three-dimensional visualization.
The computational laboratory includes four Dell workstations. In addition students and faculty have access to the Georgia Tech high performance computing systems, which include several Silicon Graphics Origin work stations.
Field instrumentation includes pressure transducers and ther mistors; a Campbell Scientific Eddy Covariance Tower System that directly measures sensible, latent and CO 2 fluxes between the terrestrial landscape through the atmosphere. This tower includes soil moisture probes, raingauge and dataloggers. Additional equipment includes an ISCO portable water sampler with ultrasonic level sensor and raingauge, a depth-integrating suspended sediment sampler, a bed sediment sampler, and current meters. Additional equipment includes a PPP Spectral Analyzer.