Expanding the Study of Fluid Mechanics at GW Engineering


February 27, 2023

Students bringing in equipment

Courtesy Philippe Bardet

In the article "New Facilities Will Bring Turbulence down to Earth," GW Today announced that GW Engineering's Philippe Bardet secured equipment from the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory to expand the study of fluid mechanics at GW Engineering. The remains of the multimillion-dollar lab facility are soon to be reborn at GW Engineering thanks to Bardet's efforts and a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

Here is an excerpt from the article: "It's exciting because we should be about to visualize for the first time this very high scale of turbulence that becomes important for a range of engineering applications - hydrodynamics, transportation for tankers, thermal hydraulics," Bardet said.

Read the full article on GW Today.