Grant: Research Tools and Instruments

<p>We are requested an ultra-high-speed camera so as to characterize a variety of poorly-understood, fluid dynamics problems. The introduction of ultra-high-speed cameras is changing the research community's ability to study fluid physics at its smallest spatial and fastest temporal scales, over a wide variety of problems ranging from vortical mixing layers to explosion physics, and from shock-wave dynamics to two-phase bubbly flows. Up until recently such aforementioned problems could only be measured at the integral scale with point measurement techniques and much speculation was required to infer these results. We now, with the advent of major improvements in high-speed camera resolution and light sensitivity, have the opportunity to break new ground in the characterization of complex flows with multi-scale phenomena, which will be critical to both our fundamental understanding and validation of numerical models but also to guide Canadian industry with their latest developments in the renewable, aerospace, biomedical and defence sectors.</p>