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实验性流动诊断仪器。这一设施将作为主要在本科院校开展研究和教育的区域设施。该核心设施将位于詹姆斯麦迪逊大学（JMU），为JMU和附近机构的教师和学生（本科生和研究生）提供服务。拟议的实验流诊断设施包括一套四个仪器-三维（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，该系统及其配套组件将使研究从空气动力学，生物流动，心血管流体力学和地质应用。这种系统和设施往往只在研究型大学提供，并在研究生一级使用。这样的设施不仅在主要的本科院校（PUI）中是独一无二的，而且这种最先进的设施将用于跨学科的研究和教育工作，包括科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科和部门（包括工程，生物学，地质科学，物理学，数学，综合科学和技术）。进入这样一个设施将极大地影响至少12名教师在JMU和其他附近机构的研究工作，包括甜布里亚学院（文科女子学院与工程项目）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.