The Project
Advances in key economical and societal issues facing Europe, like energy generation, climate change and pollution, are obstructed by the lack of understanding of turbulence. To date, models fail to explain many fundamental turbulence issues, from boundary layers and particle transport, to heat transport and turbulence in complex and quantum fluids. This has lead several European countries to fund new large-scale turbulence facilities, unsurpassed in flow properties and measurement technologies. Currently these are not easily accessible to the larger EU scientific community. This inhibits the research and renders impossible the optimal use of the resources.
Recognizing this deficiency, recently, three major scientific initiatives in turbulence started independently: the International Collaboration for Turbulence Research (ICTR) centered on particle dynamics, the Center for International Cooperation in Long Pipe Experiments (CICLoPE) focusing on boundary layers, and the European Consortium on Turbulence in Cryogenic Helium Experiments (EuTuCHE) which investigates both ultra high turbulence levels and quantum effects.
These three international groups with members from 10 countries propose to form the European High-performance Infrastructures in Turbulence (EuHIT) within the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3). Based on a rigorous review, eight transnational access facilities were selected from a general call to EU-researchers to provide the research community with access to these world-leading facilities. On the same basis, 22 partner institutions were selected for joint research activities to innovate and explore new fundamental technologies that will ensure efficient and joint use of these research infrastructures. A networking and educational program will be established to foster cooperation among researchers, to train them in using the most modern equipment and data analysis techniques, and to promote the clustering of related projects.
