Computational Facilities
In
the computational field and besides the numerous latest version PCs and Work
Stations, LTT/NTUA established in 1994, the supercomputing facility of NTUA,
with a Silicon Graphics Power Challenge (14 R8000 processors) and an Inlet
Paragon (48 nodes). This year LTT/NTUA’s initiative, the National Simulation
Facility is created, which will possess Hewlett Packard platform, of a Linpack
power of around 50 GFLOPS.
Experimental
Facilities
Low-speed section
High-speed
section
Measuring equipment:
Instrumentation for measuring almost all quantities
related to operation of turbomachines is available namely:
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A variety of pressure transducers and corresponding
conditioners |
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Thermocouples and RTD's for temperature measurements |
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Multihole probes for measurement in 2-D and
3-D flow fields |
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Hot-wires for fast response flow velocity measurements
in 2-D and 3-D flows |
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Fast response pressure transducers |
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A
3-D
LDA system , with fiber optics, comprising a 1D and 2D
system , for simultaneous three component velocity measurements |
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Various accelerometers for vibration measurements |
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Proximity
probes for shaft position measurements |
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Microphones, for acoustic measurements |
All measurements can be performed by computerized
and remote controlling Data Acquisition. The following systems are available:
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A high speed system, with 32 simultaneous channels
and maximum capability of 2 Ms/second. |
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Several medium speed systems, with 16 channels each and maximum capability
of 100 Ks/s. |
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Several low speed systems, with 32 channels each and maximum capability of
25 Ks/second. |
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Portable
system, with 16 channels, 250 Ks/s, for in situ measurements. |
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