Principal Investigator
Prof. Benedetto Marelli, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2017
Department/Lab/Center:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
To enable our engineers to develop in-depth grasp of the complex physical behavior of fluids, we propose, with the support of the Alumni Class Fund, to introduce laboratory activities in a range of undergraduate classes in fluid dynamics offered in Engineering and Science at MIT. These laboratory activities will be enabled by the acquisition of a state-of-the-art instrument aimed at analyzing and quantifying extensional flow properties. We aim to provide students with a characterization tool that can foster active learning in one of the most demanding, yet seldom covered, topic in fluid dynamics: the behavior of non-Newtonian fluids.