Laboratory Facilities

Explore the high-performance computing clusters and experimental test beds driving ClusterDEM’s research.

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Advanced Computational Frameworks

Progressively expanded through multiple research projects funded by FCT and European programs such as FP7 and H2020.

🐙 HPC Cluster Environment: Our mini-HPC architecture, OCTOPUS500, features a robust 768-core cluster with 2TB of RAM running CentOS on a ROCKS framework for large-scale CFD and multiphysics modeling.
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Electromagnetohydrodynamics (EHD/MHD)

Dedicated diagnostics and design test-beds optimizing electro-fluid interactions for active flow control and aerospace configurations.

🔬 Instrumentation & Setups: Equipped with high-voltage, high-frequency power supplies (PVM500 20kV/20kHz and 30kV/30kHz units with duty cycle controls) alongside Electrospray experimentation systems.
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Wind & Water Tunnel Facilities

Physical fluid dynamics infrastructure evaluating physical models under steady aerodynamic and hydrodynamic flow regimes.

🌊 Aerodynamic Test Beds: Features our low-speed laboratory wind tunnel for aerodynamic wing profile validation alongside an advanced fluid water tunnel system integrated with wave-generation systems.
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Flame & Combustion Diagnostic Setup

Our newly established infrastructure tracking non-equilibrium plasma interactions to manipulate reaction kinematics and emission control.

🔬 Advanced Optics & Laser Diagnostics: Backed by high-speed Particle Image Velocimetry (130 mW pulsed laser with CCD Orca-R2 arrays), high-speed camera sensors, and Background-Oriented Schlieren (BOS) systems.

Laboratory Video Demonstrations

Watch live experimental captures, high-fidelity transient fluid flow loops, and propulsion facility showcases.

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