MRI: Acquisition of Experimental Flow Diagnostics Instrumentation to Serve as a Regional Facility for Cross-disciplinary Research and Education

0923026 Pierrakos本提案要求提供资金，用于购买用于表征复杂流动的试验性流动诊断仪器。这样的设施将作为一个区域设施，主要在本科院校进行研究和教育。这一核心设施将设在詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学(JMU)，为JMU和附近机构的教职员工和学生(本科生和研究生)提供服务。拟议的实验流动诊断设施包括一套四台仪器-3D(立体)粒子图像测速(PIV)系统、水通道、风洞和心脏模拟器。该设施的核心仪器是3D时间分辨PIV系统，该系统及其附属部件将使从空气动力学、生物流动、心血管流体力学和地质应用的各种研究成为可能。这种系统和设施通常只在研究型大学提供，并在研究生一级使用。这样的设施不仅在以本科为主的院校(PUI)中是独一无二的，而且这种最先进的设施将被用于跨学科的研究和教育努力，跨越科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科和系(从工程学、生物学、地质科学、物理、数学、综合科学和技术)。使用这样的设施将极大地影响JMU至少12名教职员工以及附近机构的其他人的研究努力，包括斯威特·布莱尔学院(有一个工程项目的文科女子学院)和弗吉尼亚军事学院。

0923026PierrakosThis proposal requests funds to purchase experimental flow diagnostics instrumentation for characterization of complex flows. Such a facility would serve as a regional facility for research and education at primarily undergraduate institutions. This core facility will be located at James Madison University (JMU) and serve faculty and students (undergraduate and graduate) at JMU and nearby institutions. The proposed experimental flow diagnostics facility includes a suite of four instruments - a 3D (stereo) particle image velocimetry (PIV) system, a water channel, a wind tunnel, and a heart simulator. The core instrumentation of this facility is the 3D time resolved PIV system, which with the accompanying components will enable research varying from aerodynamics, biological flows, cardiovascular fluid mechanics, and geological applications. Such a system and facility is often only available at research universities and used at the graduate level. Not only is such a facility unique at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs), but this state-of-the-art facility will be utilized for cross-disciplinary research and education efforts spanning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and departments (ranging from engineering, biology, geological sciences, physics, mathematics, integrated science and technology). Access to such a facility would greatly impact the research efforts of at least 12 faculty at JMU and others at nearby institutions, including Sweet Briar College (liberal arts women's college with an engineering program) and the Virginia Military Institute.