LTRAC Laboratory for Turbulence Research in Aerospace and Combustion

The LTRAC Research Group at the Monash University undertakes world-leading research in the areas of turbulent flows, combustion, alternative and renewable energy, laser diagnostics and numerical simulation of turbulence. LTRAC has wide ranging capabilities in laser diagnostics including high resolution PIV, SPIV, Tomographic PIV (Tomo-PIV), Digital Holographic PIV, PLIF, Time-resolved PIV, SPIV and Tomo-PIV, high speed imaging including ultra-high-speed Schlieren capable of up to 1 Million frames per second imaging. First class Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and constant volume combustion experimental facilities are available in the LTRAC laboratories. The group has substantial high performance compute facilities and data storage in-house in addition to access to all major University, State and National high performance computing facilities. The group has numerous links with both national and international research institutes, industries and universities.

LTRAC data from this collection includes:

Outputs from direct numerical turbulence simulations in format/s VTK, HDF5 and RAW with custom metadata. Much of this data is generated on EU PRACE and AU NCI supercomputing infrastructures and returned for analysis and future reference on smaller scale compute systems available locally. It is required to make much of this data available for reference with current and future publications, additionally some of this data is subject of active research and will require near-compute storage. Raw imaging data from planar, tomographic and holographic particle image velocimetery experiments with post processed results. The raw images are stored in the .b16 file format. Raw and processed data from particle tracking velocimetery experiments stored in HDF5 files. Raw images produced from high speed Schlieren experiments of supersonic flow phenomena.