Australia’s premier research laboratory for experimental fluid dynamics.

A 400m² purpose-built laboratory designed for studies of fluid processes relevant to Earth’s climate system. The facilities include:

• controllable temperature isolation laboratory able to maintain temperatures between 2-32^oC within +/-0.1^oC, which is ideal for studies examining convection and ice melting/freezing;
• two precision rotating tables for the simulation of Coriolis effects due to planetary rotation;
• recirculating wind tunnel for experiments investigating evaporation including measurement of shortwave and longwave radiation and surface temperature;
• a wide range of apparatus for teaching and demonstrating many types of fluid dynamics;
• an extensive collection of diagnostic and imaging equipment to observe and measure mixing, waves, plumes, eddies, among other fluid phenomena and climate processes.