SAFL leads in laboratory-based experimental water resources research and testing, and we are fully equipped to perform virtually any water- or wind-related measurement. We offer an extensive inventory of up-to-date, commercially available hydraulic and environmental measurement tools.

• Flumes and Channels – Hydraulic structures, sediment transport, bridge scour, hydrokinetic energy production, effects of turbulence on biogeochemical processes, and more

• Water Tunnels and Tower – High speed flow, cavitating and ventilated flow, other bubbly flows, plankton stratification, and more

• Hydraulic and Stratigraphic Basins – Hydraulic river models, pump intake model,  fluvial geomorphology, and delta and fan modeling

• SAFL EcoLab – Interactions among fundamental fluid mechanics, microbiological processes, and chemical reactions that are mediated by biological organisms

• Wind Tunnel – Turbulence, atmospheric chemistry, land-atmosphere exchange processes and more

We also develop advanced technologies for faster, larger, and more precise data collection techniques:

• Automated positioning and measurement platforms
• Automated water surface profilers
• Digital imaging systems
• Suspended dynamic pressure and force measurement
• Sediment flux measurement

Contact safl@umn.edu to learn more.