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LABORATORY OF FLUID MECHANICS & ENERGY (LFME) UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS. Tel.: +30-610-997577 Fax: +30-610-997267 Email: tsahalis@lfme.chemeng.upatras.gr URL: http://lfme.chemeng.upatras.gr. The University of Patras. Established in 1964
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LABORATORY OF FLUID MECHANICS & ENERGY (LFME)UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS Tel.: +30-610-997577 Fax: +30-610-997267 Email:tsahalis@lfme.chemeng.upatras.gr URL:http://lfme.chemeng.upatras.gr
The University of Patras • Established in 1964 • Located 6 Km NE of the city of Patras, along the Athens-Patras national highway • The third largest University in Greece in terms of student number, staff employed and courses offered
The University of Patras • School of Sciences: 6 Departments • School of Health Sciences: 2 Departments • School of Humanities and Social Sciences: 5 Departments • School of Economics: 2 Departments • School of Engineering: 7 Departments
School of Engineering • Department of Chemical Engineering • Department of Civil Engineering • Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics • Department of Electrical Engineering • Department of Mechanical Engineering • Department of Engineering Sciences • Department of Architecture
The Chemical Engineering Department • Faculty members: 28 • Post-graduate students: 100 • Post-doctoral researchers: 15 • Undergraduate students: 500
The Chemical Engineering Department • Division A: Fundamental Sciences • Division B: Material Science and Technology • Division C: Chemical and Biochemical Processes • Division D: Natural Processes and Environment.
Inorganic and Analytic Chemistry Physical Chemistry, Structure and Dynamic of Amorphic Materials and Fluids Statistic Thermodynamics and Macromolecules Polymers Materials and Metallurgy Ceramics and Composite Materials Chemistry of Plasma Heterogeneous Catalysis Chemical Processes and Electrochemistry Surface Science Biochemical Engineering and Environmental Technology System Dynamics Transport Phenomena and Hydrodynamic Physical Chemistry FLUID MECHANICS AND ENERGY Numerical Fluid Dynamics The Chemical Engineering Department
Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Energy (LFME) • Established in 1990 by Professor Demos T. Tsahalis. • Focuses its activities in the development of methodologies, algorithms and computer software for the modeling of energy related and fluid mechanics problems as well as performing vibration and noise experiments/measurements
Areas of Research • Active Noise and Vibration Control (ANVC) • Energy Related Problems (Rational Use of Energy, Renewable Energies, etc.) • Optimization - Genetic Algorithms (GAs) • Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Neural Networks, Expert Systems) • Modeling - Finite Element Method (FEM) • Substructuring Techniques
Equipment • Virtual Instrument hardware and software: • 1 Intel Pentium II @ 233 MHz 320 MB RAM PC with: • 2 National Instruments AT-MIO-16L-9 data acquisition cards • 1 National Instruments PC-MIO-16E4 data acquisition card • 2 National Instruments BNC-2080 Analog BNC boards and 1 National Instruments BNC-2090 Analog BNC board • LabVIEW 5.1 software.
Equipment • Acoustic Measurement System: • 20 Acousticel 130A microphones with their mounting sockets • 1 PCB 070C21 input patch panel (16 Channels) • 1 Acousticel Series 513A signal conditioner (16 Channels) • 1 Handheld microphone calibrator
Equipment • Vibration Measurement System: • 16 Single axis shear accelerometers with their mounting pads • 1 PCB 070C29-S Input patch panel (16 Channels) • 1 PCB 583 Series multi-channel programmable ICP power supply and signal conditioner (16 channels) • 1 Handheld accelerometer calibrator
Equipment • General Instruments: • 1 Telinstrument TI-5252 25 MHz Oscilloscope • 2 Goldstar FG-2002C Function generators • 1 HP 203A Variable phase function generator • 1 Texas Instruments TMS320C2x EVM programmable DSP board with the appropriate software (TMS320 C and Assembly programming languages) • Piezoelectric Kit: • 1 Piezo Systems Inc. KMA-005 Piezoelectric Motor/Actuator Kit
Hardware & Software • PC-based local area network consisting of: • AMD K6/200 MHz Windows NT 4.0 server with: • World Wide Web (WWW) server • FTP server • E-MAIL server • 1 AMD K6/200 MHz with 128 MB RAM • 3 Intel Pentium/100/120 MHz computers with 32/64 MB RAM • 6 Intel 80486/100/133 MHz computers with 32/64 MB RAM
Hardware & Software • DIGITAL MicroVax VT 3100 local area network with: • 4 VT terminals • 2 PC AT connected as terminals. • Portable Computers with full dial-up networking capabilities: • 2 Intel 80486 computers • 1 Intel 80386 computer
Hardware & Software • MATLAB 4.2c1 • LabVIEW 5.1 • ALGOR • ANSYS v5.53 • CSi SAP 90 Structural Analysis Software • Salford FTN77 • PHOENICS 2.22