The design of the Long Pipe in CICLoPE

The following outlines a three to four year plan for the development of a high Reynolds number, long pipe facility for detailed turbulence measurements in combination with computational efforts to provide a focus of activity for leading international researchers in the field of wall-bounded turbulent flows. The facility is intended for at least ten years of basic research and has the potential for extensions with more direct impact on applications, such as the study of the effect of non-smooth walls or non-isothermal conditions, the evolution of various non-equilibrium flows, and of flows with some particulates. The designated location at the tunnels at the "Ex Industrie Caproni" site in Predappio, Italy, in coordination with the Universita' di Bologna at Forli', with its two large tunnels, can also be the potential location of other unique fluid dynamic facilities, such as a special setup for the study of two and three dimensional separated flows at high Reynolds numbers.