Facilities
Turbomachinery
- 3' diameter large scale axial flow compressor facility (single-stage)
- 3' diameter large scale axial flow turbine facility with modern blading
- Multi-stage research compressor facility (500HP),
- 10" torque converter facility with rotating flow instrumentation
- Centrifugal compressor test facility
- Instrumentation include specialized turbomachinery probes, rotating probe traverse mechanism, 2 x 16 channel high-speed data acquisition system (1 MHz), 156 channel electronic pressure scanner and data acquisition system (20 KHz), various medium speed data acquisition systems (50 KHz), 3 axis high resolution stepping motor driver, large low noise slip ring unit (150 ring), and a Mercury slip ring (2 x 10 channels)
- Turbomachinery Heat Transfer facilities include:
- Hot air wind Tunnel (room 39) including a low speed cascade and turning duct test section
- High speed turbine cascade (90 % complete in room 41)
- A rotating disk heat transfer device
- A three component fiber coupled LDV system driven by a 5 W Argon-Ion Laser
- A 1 component semi-conductor laser based miniature LDV system
- An image processing system for liquid crystal color interpretation
- Several jets for probe calibration
- Current Research
Single-stage compressor facility (283K)
Axial flow turbine (3' dia) (294K)
Multi-stage compressor facility (264K)
Automotive torque converter facility (209k)