Who We are
Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics
The Laboratory of Applied Hydraulics is one of the oldest Laboratories of the School of Civil Engineering. It was established in 1963 and is located at the homonymous building of the Campus at Zografou.
It focuses on fundamental as well as applied aspects of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulic structures and related areas. It supports core and elective courses in the curriculum of the School of Civil Engineering as well as graduate courses of the interdepartmental program on Water Resources Science and Technology.
Experiments Hall
The experimental hall of the Laboratory (named after its former director George Noutsopoulos) occupies an area of about 1000 m², and is equipped with two linear cranes and a central recirculating water supply system with total capacity about 200 l/s. The Laboratory has a 15 m long tilting flume, a 3 x 1.5 m tank with special provisions for jets & plumes studies, several smaller tanks and flumes, basins for hydraulic model studies and teaching equipment for fluid mechanics experiments.
Instrumentation includes point gauges, Pitot tubes, water velocity (propeller type) probes for laboratory and field measurements, manometers, microscale conductivity and thermistor probes, ultrasonic flow meter, 3D- Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV), 1-D laser-Doppler anemometer (LDA), planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) imaging, and data acquisition systems for measurement and image capture and processing. A PIV system is expected to be installed soon.
IT Lab
An autonomous Computer Network with several personal computers is available for mathematical modeling. It is linked to the Computing Center of NTUA.
Classroom
In the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering in the first floor there is the classroom where special equipment is established for tutorial purposes as well as lectures of invited researchers and other related events.
