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Switzerland - Laboratory, optical and precision equipment (excluding eyeglasses) - Complete high-speed scanning particle image velocimetry (PIV) system

Original Suisse - Équipements de laboratoire, d'optique et de précision (excepté les lunettes) - Un système complet de vélocimétrie par image de particules à balayage haute vitesse (high-speed PIV)

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Summary

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EPFL, acting through its Hydraulic Machines Technology Platform (PTMH) under the Vice-Presidency for Centres and Platforms, intends to procure a complete high-speed scanning particle image velocimetry (PIV) system. The equipment will support advanced fluid dynamics research at the PTMH and the UNFoLD and HEAD laboratories, focusing on unsteady and transient flows in hydraulic machines, flow stability and control, vortex dynamics, cavitation, and particle-laden turbulent flows, with applications in hydropower. The location is the EPFL in Switzerland. No estimated value or submission deadline is stated in the notice. Suppliers of laboratory, optical and precision equipment may bid under the applicable tender procedure.

Description

L’EPFL envisage d’acquérir un système complet de vélocimétrie par image de particules à balayage haute vitesse (high-speed PIV) pour sa Plateforme Technologique des Machines Hydrauliques (PTMH) de la Vice-présidence associée aux Centres et Plateformes (AVP-CP). Cet équipement sera dédié à des recherches de pointe en dynamique des fluides, en particulier sur des phénomènes d’écoulement complexes, instationnaires et transitoires, avec des applications à l’hydroélectricité. Compte tenu des besoins de l’EPFL et des objectifs scientifiques spécifiques de la PTMH, UNFoLD et HEAD laboratoires, l’accent sera mis sur les domaines de recherche suivants : Utilisation de la stéréo-PIV à haute vitesse, associée à un système de positionnement contrôlé, afin d’effectuer des mesures quasi-instantanées et finement résolues du champ d’écoulement pour : - Les phénomènes d’écoulement instationnaires et transitoires dans les machines hydrauliques, avec un accent particulier sur les variations rapides de charge et les séquences transitoires. - La stabilité des écoulements, les instabilités et le contrôle des écoulements dans des systèmes hydrauliques complexes. - La dynamique des vortex et les mécanismes de séparation de l’écoulement, incluant l’identification et l’évolution des structures cohérentes. - Les dynamiques de cavitation et leur interaction avec les champs d’écoulement instationnaires. - Les écoulements turbulents chargés en particules, incluant la modulation de la turbulence induite par les sédiments et le transport lié à l’érosion.

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€645,000
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