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Experimental scale

		Dr Neil Arnold Field experiment
		Prof Holger Babinsky Lab-scale wind tunnel testing In situ testing road haulage aerodynamics Full-scale road haulage aerodynamics
		Prof Jeremy Baumberg Micro-/nano-scale on-demand optical confinement of quantum fluids using spatial light modulators
		Dr Silvana Cardoso Lab-scale Plumes/thermals/porous media with chemical reaction
		Dr Otti Croze Micro-/nano-scale microchannel flows Lab-scale lab-scale photobioreactors and algal cultures
		Dr Bart Hallmark Lab-scale use of MultiPass rheometer for visualising bubble growth and movement in non-Newtonian fluids (food fluids, polymer melts) rheometry of complex fluids. In situ testing co-development of portable extensional rheometer for in-situ testing of plant fluids
		Prof Simone Hochgreb Lab-scale optical diagnostic measurements of combustion: PIV, LIF, LDA, LII, Raman/Rayleigh, LIGS, LIPS, LIBS, absorption, scattering, for all sorts of measurements Full-scale former tests in large scale high pressure and low temperature facilities Remote sensing nanoparticle sensor development
		Prof Marian Holness Lab-scale See below Field experiment direct observation of carefully chosen field examples, using well-known geological examples as a natural laboratory to test hypotheses - the observations are made both in the field, and back in the lab on selected samples using microscopes (optical and electron), together with geochemical analysis (electron microprobe and scanning electron microscope)
		Prof Matthew Juniper Lab-scale lab scale thermoacoustic experiments
		Dr Ulrich Keyser Micro-/nano-scale
		Prof Alexei Lapkin In situ testing Raman microscopy, TEM imaging
		Dr Dongfang Liang Lab-scale
		Dr Iris Möller Lab-scale investigation of wave and uni-directional water flow over complex biological surfaces In-situ testing investigation of wave and uni-directional water flow over complex biological surfaces Full-scale investigation of wave and uni-directional water flow over complex biological surfaces Field experiment investigation of wave and uni-directional water flow over complex biological surfaces Remote sensing linking space- and air-borne hyperspectral measurements to field-recorded vegetation properties of relevance to flow reduction in coastal margin zones
		Prof Clive Oppenheimer Remote sensing spaceborne and ground-based remote sensing of volcanoes
		Dr Alex Routh Lab-scale
		Dr Rob Smith Micro-/nano-scale cold atoms trapped in ~30μm box
		Dr Nathalie Vriend Lab-scale tailored laboratory experiments on granular systems Field experiment ground-penetrating radar, seismic analysis, particle analysis Remote sensing Laser scanning of topography, satellite images
		Prof Ian Wilson Micro-/nano-scale rheometry; micro-scale flow experiments Lab-scale many different types: apparatus construction In situ testing Field experiment literally - mobile extensional rheometer

Laboratory set-up

		Prof Holger Babinsky Wind tunnel wind tunnels across the speed range Flume water tow tank and flume
		Prof Jeremy Baumberg Microfluidic device standard PDMS-based
		Dr Silvana Cardoso Stratified tank/flow device plumes/thermals/porous media with chemical reaction
		Dr Otti Croze Microfluidic device swimming microalgae in channel and oscillatory flows
		Dr Ulrich Keyser Microfluidic device
		Prof Alexei Lapkin Microfluidic device microfluidics and meso fluidics rigs, custom and commercial modules
		Dr Dongfang Liang Flume
		Dr Iris Möller Flume investigation of wave and uni-directional water flow over complex biological surfaces Wave tank investigation of wave and uni-directional water flow over complex biological surfaces
		Dr Eric Rees Microfluidic device fluorescence anisotropy imaging of microdroplet assays
		Dr Nathalie Vriend Flume granular flume, rotating fluid/sediment flume

Measurement techniques

		Prof Holger Babinsky Pitot-static tube Hot-wire anemometry PIV High-speed video capture
		Prof Jeremy Baumberg High-speed video capture 2-picosecond resolution streak camera captures the time dynamics of the quantum liquid Spectroscopy High resolution spectrometers (0.02 nm) resolve the energy dynamics of the fluid; scattering microspectroscopy/optical spectroscopy in general
		Dr Silvana Cardoso Pitot-static tube Hele-Shaw cell PIV Plumes High-speed video capture Plumes LIF Plumes Light absorption plumes/thermals/Hele-shaw cell with chemical reaction
		Dr Otti Croze PIV micro and macro PIV of flows in microfluidic channels and photobioreactor tubes High-speed video capture for PIV and swimmer particle tracking Light absorption inference of cell concentrations using Abel transform
		Prof Simone Hochgreb Hot-wire anemometry reacting and non-reacting flows PIV reacting and non-reacting flows High-speed video capture reacting and non-reacting flows Spectroscopy reacting and non-reacting flows LIF reacting and non-reacting flows Light absorption reacting and non-reacting flows
		Prof Matthew Juniper Hot-wire anemometry High-speed video capture
		Dr Ulrich Keyser PIV High-speed video capture
		Prof Alexei Lapkin Spectroscopy Raman confocal microscopy
		Dr Dongfang Liang PIV LIF
		Dr Iris Möller High-speed video capture laboratory investigation of plant movement under different flow/wave regimes Spectroscopy linking space- and air-borne hyperspectral measurements to field-recorded vegetation properties of relevance to flow reduction in coastal margin zones Pressure sensors bed-mounted sensors: self-recording, telemetered, field data logging of waves in shallow coastal water
		Prof Clive Oppenheimer Spectroscopy adaptation of spectroscopic methods for volcanic plume measurements
		Dr Rob Smith Light absorption atoms imaged using absorption imaging
		Dr Nathalie Vriend PIV for velocity measurements High-speed video capture for velocity measurements Laser techniques to derive profiles and dimensions
		Prof Ian Wilson Hot-wire anemometry PIV High-speed video capture user; develop image capture tools Light absorption

Visualisation techniques

		Prof Holger Babinsky Tracer injection Fluorescence Schlieren/shadowgraph
		Prof Jeremy Baumberg Tracer injection nanoparticle tracers
		Dr Silvana Cardoso Tracer injection Plumes/jets Fluorescence Plumes Schlieren/shadowgraph
		Dr Otti Croze Tracer injection dyed tracers and swimming dyed plumes in swimming dispersion studies
		Prof Simone Hochgreb Tracer injection reacting and non-reacting flows Tracer generation reacting and non-reacting flows Fluorescence reacting and non-reacting flows Schlieren/shadowgraph reacting and non-reacting flows
		Prof Alexei Lapkin Tracer injection tracer injections with UV or fluorescence detection
		Prof Ian Wilson Tracer injection Fluorescence MRI

Data analysis techniques

		Dr Jethro Akroyd Statistical techniques model-based experimental design
		Dr Neil Arnold Image processing
		Prof Holger Babinsky Image processing
		Dr Silvana Cardoso Image processing plumes/thermals/Hele-Shaw cell with chemical reaction
		Dr Otti Croze Fourier analysis differential dynamic microscopy (a Fourier optics technique) of swimming algae
		Prof Simone Hochgreb Fourier analysis imaging and time-based signals for reacting and non-reacting turbulent flows Image processing imaging and time-based signals for reacting and non-reacting turbulent flows
		Prof Matthew Juniper Fourier analysis Statistical techniques
		Dr Ulrich Keyser Fourier analysis Statistical techniques
		Prof Alexei Lapkin Image processing ImageJ method for TEM image analysis (under development)
		Dr Dongfang Liang Image processing
		Dr Iris Möller Fourier analysis processing of bed-mounted high-frequency pressure sensor records Image processing linking space- and air-borne hyperspectral measurements to field-recorded vegetation properties of relevance to flow reduction in coastal margin zones
		Dr Eric Rees Image processing ellipsoid localisation microscopy (ELM) and single molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM).
		Dr Rob Smith Fourier analysis Image processing extracting momentum distributions from time-of -flight images
		Dr Alex Routh Fluorescence
		Prof Paul Tucker Statistical techniques Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) etc
		Dr Nathalie Vriend Fourier analysis for modes in avalanches (also dynamic mode decomposition) Image processing DigiFlow, MATLAB
		Prof Ian Wilson Image processing particle behaviour; granulation