Tilting flume
The LEGI tilting flume, 10 m long and 35 cm wide, is used to study boundary layer hydrodynamics and sediment transport. A sediment injection system has been designed and built in 2019 (ANR JCJC (...)
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Experimental facilities
The MEIGE team is not out of the great equipment-> topic101], is the case of:
The Coriolis platform,
The Coriolis platform, 13 m in diameter, is the largest rotating platform in the world dedicated to the mechanics of rotating fluids. It was built in 1960 to model tidal currents in the English Channel. It was refitted and instrumented to study the dynamics of rotating fluids in the late 1980s. Since 1996, successive European contracts have made the Coriolis platform and the LEGI a very active international center for stratified and rotating fluid dynamics.
The main activity of the Coriolis platform is the experimental modeling of geophysical flow processes, taking into account the rotation of the Earth, with or without density stratification or topography. This platform has been rebuilt in 2014 and is now fully operational.
The swell channel,
The LEGI wave flume is a glass channel 36m long and 2m deep and 0.5m wide using a piston type wavemaker. This facility is used to study beach morphology and sediment as well as hydrodynamics (currents and turbulence) of the surf zone.
The multi-directional wave basin at LHF-> http://www.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/web/spip.php?rubrique178] (GINP / ARTELIA).
Built in 1991, the wave bassin at LHF is located in the premises of ARTELIA in Pont-de-Claix, an engineering company specialized in water resources, environment, energy and urban development.
The team also uses a number of smaller scale experimental facilities, such as:
The rotating platform (1m),
The grid turbulence tank,