University of Houston Hydraulics Laboratory

The University of Houston Hydraulics Laboratory is used for research and teaching and includes:

Facilities

• 120ft  x 4ft x 4ft (length x width x depth) glass wall wave tank

• 30ft x 1ft x 3ft (length x width x depth) glass wall flume with constant head tank

• 48ft x 3ft x 2ft (length x width x depth) wood flume
  

Equipment

• 3D Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) with 200Hz sampling capability

• Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) capabilities for laboratory and field measurement of 2D velocity fields
  

• Price-type current meters for shallow flows

• Speedy velocity meter with Pulsar flow meter

• Several digital cameras for lab and field data collection with a 4 channel video recorder

• Water-level pressure transducers

• 4 connected in-house built and supported computational clusters.