Hydraulic Laboratory
GENERAL INFORMATION
The hydraulic laboratory is located on an area of 250 m2 within the Engineering Faculty of Gazi University. The laboratory includes tanks, ducts, pipes and pump systems that keep the water circulating in a closed circuit. The laboratory has an underground reservoir where 200 m3 of water is stored and three pump systems with a power of 30 kW each.
In the laboratory, undergraduate students conduct Open Channel Hydraulics experiments and sluice experiments within the scope of Hydromechanics and Water Resources courses. Students prepare reports with the data they obtained from these experiments. Depending on their field of study Master's and PhD students can work extensively in open channel and cylindrical tank testing apparatus.
Students who want to work in the laboratory are warned by the personnel in charge of the laboratory rules and the safety precautions to be followed.
Figure 1: General view of the hydraulic laboratory
In the laboratory, there are basic experimental setups used for educational purposes at the undergraduate level and for scientific research at the graduate level. Research that can be done in these mechanisms can be listed below:
• Scour and sediment transport tests
• Channel stability of streams
• Water intake structures
• Open channel flow tests
• Fluorine-chlorine diffusion-dispersion experiments in pipe flow
• Flooding experiments
• Local loss tests
A brief summary of the experimental setups is given below.
• Rectangular channel (Channel 1) with a length of 12.0 m and a width of 1.0 m.
• Rectangular channel 10.8 m long and 0.5 m wide (Channel 2).
• Cylindrical tank with an inner diameter of 2.5 m and a height of 1.2 m.
• Sediment transport test setup
• Water jet test setup
• Orifice test setup
• Free and forced cycle test setup
• Local loss test setup in pipes
• Open channel flow test setup
Figure 2: Side view of Channel 1
Figure 3: A view from inside Channel
Figure 4: Top view of the cylindrical tank
Figure 5: Sediment transport experiment setup
Figure 6: Water jet / Orifice experimental setup
Figure 7: Free and forced cycle test setup
Figure 8: Local loss test setup in pipe flows
Figure 9: Open channel flow test setup
Laboratory manager
Responsible Faculty Member: Assoc. Dr. Nihat EROGLU
Responsible Technical Personnel: Instructor Levent BÜTÜN
