Leon Boegman, Laboratory

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Extensive laboratory facilities and instrumentation are available at the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, located within the 1,860 square meter Queen's University Coastal Engineering Research Laboratory.

Queen's University is ideally located on the shore of Lake Ontario. Field research is conducted throughout the Great Lakes in collaboration with the National Water Research Institute of Environment Canada. Field studies are also possible in smaller Canadian Shield lakes including the Queen's University Biological Station and Eagle Lake field site.

Instrument Manuals:

Laboratory Facilities

  • 20 m glass walled internal wave flume
  • 1 m diameter rotating table
  • Oscillating water tunnel for research on boundary layers
  • Three 61 m long wave flumes with irregular wave generators
  • Coastal models basin (21m x 21m) equipped with an irregular wave generator
  • 30.5 m sediment transport fume

Laboratory Equipment

  • LaVision dual camera coupled PLIF / PIV facility (15 Hz, 2048 pix, 16-bit)
  • Surface and internal wave gauges
  • Laser and Acoustic Doppler anemometers
  • Conductivity and temperature microstructure profilers
  • Digital video cameras
breaking internal wave
Numerical animation of shoaling nonlinear internal wave (in collaboration with K.G. Lamb).

Computational Facilities

  • Dual processor dual core AMD Opteron workstation (3.6 GHz, 32 MB, 30 TB)
  • Access to High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (www.hpcvl.org)
  • Linux, Windows and Mac machines for serial code and image/data acquisition

L. Ontario ELCOM

Lake Ontario surface temperature simulated with ELCOM

Field Equipment

  • SCAMP microstructure profiler (CTD, Tu, Fl)
  • PME t-chains and RBR 1060 fast response thermistors
  • Land based and buoy mounted meteorological stations
  • Nortek Aquadopp acoustic Doppler current profilers (2MHz, 600kHz, 400kHz)
  • Nortek Vector acoustic Doppler velocimeter
  • RBR XR-620 handheld CTD + DO + Tu + Fl
  • Various moored Tu, DO and Fl sensors

Limnos on Lake Erie

Deploying an instrument tripod from the CCGS Limnos in central Lake Erie