Rotating table
Rotating table facility
A multi-purpose rotating platform that has been actively used for many years now.
- Diameter 1.7 m.
- Modular surface with screw holes.
- Rotation rates up to Ω = 10 rad/s.
- Connections: rotary water joint, electrical power, optical network link.
A brief selection of papers where this setup is used:
- R.P.J. Kunnen, H.J.H. Clercx B.J. Geurts. Breakdown of large-scale circulation in turbulent rotating convection. EPL 84, 24001, 2008.
- L.J.A. van Bokhoven, H.J.H. Clercx, G.J.F. van Heijst & R.R. Trieling. Experiments on rapidly rotating turbulent flows. Phys. Fluids 21, 096601, 2009.
- R.P.J. Kunnen, B.J. Geurts & H.J.H. Clercx. Experimental and numerical investigation of turbulent convection in a rotating cylinder. J. Fluid Mech. 642, 445-476, 2010.
- L. Del Castello & H.J.H. Clercx. Lagrangian acceleration of passive tracers in statistically steady rotating turbulence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 214502, 2011.
- M. Duran Matute, G. Di Nitto, R.R. Trieling, L.P.J. Kamp & G.J.F. van Heijst. The break-up of Ekman theory in a flow subjected to background rotation and driven by a non-conservative body force. Phys. Fluids 24, 116602, 2012.
- S.S. Shirsath, J.T. Padding, N.G. Deen, H.J.H. Clercx & J.A.M. Kuipers. Experimental study of monodisperse granular flow through an inclined rotating chute. Powder Technol. 246, 235-246, 2013.
- P.R. Joshi, H. Rajaei, R.P.J. Kunnen & H.J.H. Clercx. Heat transfer in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection with rough plates. J. Fluid Mech. 830, R3, 2013.
- H. Rajaei, K.M.J. Alards, R.P.J. Kunnen & H.J.H. Clercx. Velocity and acceleration statistics in rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection. J. Fluid Mech. 857, 374-397, 2018.
Contact
r.p.j.kunnen@tue.nl
Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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