The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory was included in the first laboratories of the original Department of Mechanical Engineering before the time of the transformation into a Department of Higher Education. At that time it was a department of postgraduate technical studies (KATEE). Consequently this laboratory counts almost 40 years of presence. During the Technological Education it belonged to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and later it was renamed to the laboratory of Fluid Engineering “N. Nanousis ”until 2019 which belonged to the Department of Mechanical Engineering TEI, TEI of Western Greece.
Since 2019 the laboratory belongs to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Peloponnese, Patras, Greece. The formal foundation of the laboratory as Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery Laboratory (FMTL) of was done in 2020 with the Greek Government Gazette τΒ ‘4958 / 10.11.2020.
The laboratory is equipped with instrumentation that supports the educational process of the courses Fluid Mechanics I, Fluid Mechanics II, Fluid Dynamics Machines, Metrology, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Simulation of Energy Systems. Moreover, support is also given in general courses and Thesis (Msc or PhD) in the Subjects of Hydraulics, Aerodynamics and generally Computational Fluid Dynamics. The courses Computational Fluid Mechanics and Simulation of Energy Systems are taught by members of the laboratory using the Computing Center of the Department. The central computing infrastructure of the department consisting of HPE ProLiant SL210t Gen8 Blade Server is also used for the research taking place in the laboratory. There is also available one workstation with cpu intel 12th gen 128GB Ram and a number of other smaller workstations.
The Laboratory covers educational and research needs in the following subjects at national and international level:
- Experimental and computational investigation of isothermal and chemically reactive liquid and gas flows found in modern technological applications, magnetohydrodynamic flows, as well as biomedical and porous media flows.
- Studies of dispersion of substances and pollutants in fluids, development of antifouling technologies.
- Study of large-scale flows such as geophysical and coastal flows.
- Study, design and development of experimental arrangements for the application and use of fluids including fluid dynamics in renewables on wind, water, solar, geothermal power, and fluid-structure interactions..
- Study, design and development of computational fluid mechanics and fluid dynamics simulation models.
- Design of devices and products related to fluid mechanics and fluid dynamics processes and machines.
- Study, design and development of energy production methods using fluid dynamic machines.
- Νew and innovative approaches to enhance energy efficiency including renewable energy efficiency.