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hline.gif (1894 bytes) The first Hydarulics Laboratory, 1920. Iowa City's Burlington St. dam, with a 10-foot gap left ot provide the future Hydraulics Laboratory with water. Small-scale model of Missippi River locks and dams, Alton, Illinois, 1930s. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lock and dam study, 1934. A 1950s wind tunnel investigation of turbulent boundary layers. Sediment and erosion studies. North win (constructed 1928) of the current Hydraulics Laboratory. IIHR's newly created towing tank, 1960. Today's Hydraulics Laboratory This late 1960s mapping of flows and alluvial beds in the Missouri River constituted one of IIHR's very frist computer-dependent research efforts. Field measurements of Mississippi River spillway flows, Keokuk dam, 1924. Looking south down Riverside Drive at hte Hydraulics laboratory in the llate 1930s. IIHR's improvements of Coast Guard fire-fighting nozzles. Radar and lidar remote sensing equipment. Back to Basics Scaling Down Applying the Results Into the 21st Century Birth of a Laboratory IIHR researchers fed grease down model sink traps in efforts to develop efficient grease interceptors for large U.S. Army kitchens. IIHR's ship hydrodynamics research. The performance of an Alabama power plant's unique circular cooling tower Sediment sampling studies, 1940s. IIHR's low temperature laboratory The Nation's Call Radar and lidar remote sensing equipment. IIHR's intensive 1970s power plant studies... A 1999 CFD (computational fluids dynamics) model simulates flow into a turbine of a Snake River dam.
 

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