A new facility to study high Reynolds number wall bounded turbulent flow has been designed. It will be installed in the laboratory of Center for International Collaboration on Long Pipe Experiments ”CICLoPE” in Predappio (Italy). The facility consists of a large pipe, allowing to reach high Reynolds numbers, where all turbulent scales can be resolved with standard measurement techniques. The pipe operates with air at ambient conditions with a maximum speed of 60 m/s in order to avoid any compressibility effect. In order to maintain stable conditions over long period of time the pipe is part of a close loop circuit. The pipe will be located in a tunnel 60 m underground, thus ensuring very low level of external perturbations. The layout resembles an ordinary wind tunnel where the main difference is the long test section, which produces most of the friction losses. This requires the use of a multiple stage axial fan driven by two independent motors. Even though many of the various aerodynamic components are similar to those ordinary used in wind tunnel (corners, diffusers, turbulence manipulators, contraction, etc.) they have been designed aiming at obtaining a very good quality of the flow and minimizing the overall pressure losses.

Talamelli, A., Bellani, G., Rossetti, A. (2014). The Long Pipe in CICLoPE: A design for detailed turbulence measurements. Berlin : Springer [10.1007/978-3-319-01860-7_21].

The Long Pipe in CICLoPE: A design for detailed turbulence measurements

Talamelli, A.
;
Bellani, G.;Rossetti, A.
2014

Abstract

A new facility to study high Reynolds number wall bounded turbulent flow has been designed. It will be installed in the laboratory of Center for International Collaboration on Long Pipe Experiments ”CICLoPE” in Predappio (Italy). The facility consists of a large pipe, allowing to reach high Reynolds numbers, where all turbulent scales can be resolved with standard measurement techniques. The pipe operates with air at ambient conditions with a maximum speed of 60 m/s in order to avoid any compressibility effect. In order to maintain stable conditions over long period of time the pipe is part of a close loop circuit. The pipe will be located in a tunnel 60 m underground, thus ensuring very low level of external perturbations. The layout resembles an ordinary wind tunnel where the main difference is the long test section, which produces most of the friction losses. This requires the use of a multiple stage axial fan driven by two independent motors. Even though many of the various aerodynamic components are similar to those ordinary used in wind tunnel (corners, diffusers, turbulence manipulators, contraction, etc.) they have been designed aiming at obtaining a very good quality of the flow and minimizing the overall pressure losses.
2014
Progress in Turbulence V. Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2012
127
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Talamelli, A., Bellani, G., Rossetti, A. (2014). The Long Pipe in CICLoPE: A design for detailed turbulence measurements. Berlin : Springer [10.1007/978-3-319-01860-7_21].
Talamelli, A.; Bellani, G.; Rossetti, A.
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