Optical Diagnostics System for Thermo-Fluids and Hydrogen research facilities

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This request is for a two-dimensional particle image velocimetry system. The budget covers the acquisition of a high-speed camera, dual cavity high powered laser, and requisite hardware/software components for system operation. This equipment supports four fundamental research programs in fluid structure interactions, unsteady aerodynamics, hydrogen production, and thermal energy storage and conversion. The system will maintain our research capacity and contributions to novel technologies at an internationally competitive level. It will become one of the primary measurement tools in the applicant's and co-applicants' research programs, aiding in the training of approximately ten HQP on an annual basis. HQP trained with this equipment will be funded through both fundamental research grants as well as collaborations with industrial partners. HQP gain hands on skills in experimental facilities operation (e.g., wind tunnels, water flow loops, scaled reactor vessels and furnaces), experimental techniques including pressure sensing, strain/force sensing, image processing and signal analysis, data reduction, and data analysis including experimental deployment of artificial neural networks. The program thus trains HQP with high technical expertise and skills suited for next generation technologies, for example, clean hydrogen, intelligent heat exchangers and thermal energy storage solutions, flow control and drag reduction systems for aerospace applications, and green steelmaking with improved basic oxygen furnaces. The research has great potential to provide solutions in these areas, supporting the Government of Canada commitments in reducing the impacts of climate change.