Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
UMR 6598 du CNRS
- Address :
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes
1 rue de la Noë
BP 92101
44115 Nantes Cedex 3 - FRANCE - Email :
- direction.lmf@ec-nantes.fr
- on Internet :
- www.ec-nantes.fr
- Phone :
- 33 240 371 600
- Fax :
- 33 240 747 406
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- Root structure :
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Board of Research
Trusteeship
Ecole Centrale de NantesOrganization
- The Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering Team
- The Computational Fluid Dynamics Team
- The Dynamics of Inhabited Atmosphere Team
- Internal Combustion Engines Team
- 60 persons of which 35 are permanent staff : researchers, technical and administrative staff, Ministery of Education or CNRS,
- 10 researchers under contracts and 15 PhD students.
Axe(s) of research
The main research axis of the laboratory concern the following 4 fields :
- Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Dynamics of the Inhabited Atmosphere
- Thermofluid study of Internal Combustion Engines
The experimental facilities of the laboratory are unique in the field of academic research in France.
Equipments
- A towing tank of 148 m long, 5 m wide and 3 m depth, with a carriage allowing to tow models up to 8 m/s. A wave maker allows to create front waves up to 0.6 m height.
- A wave tank of 50 m length, 30 m wide and 5 m depth, with a central pit of 5 m on 5 m on 5 m. A multiflap wavemaker with 48 independant flaps allows to create multidirectionnal waves of 1 m height.
- A 26 m long wind tunnel with a measurement section of 2 m on 2 m used to make PIV measurement for the study of lower urban atmosphere.
- 4 test-stands for internal combustion engines allowing to test engines from 70 to 400 k (test-stand of 70, 130,150 and 400 kW).
Date of update September 22, 2009