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The Thermal Laboratory was established to support research and teaching activities at the University of Luxembourg in the fields of thermal processes, thermal management, heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, and energy systems. The laboratory is organized into two main sections: a teaching area and a research area. The teaching area supports Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, including courses such as Thermodynamics I and II, Heat and Mass Transfer, and the dedicated hands-on Thermal Lab course. The research area provides experimental support for scientific projects and applied collaborations with industrial partners.
List of equipment
Teaching area
- Heat conduction in solids
- Free and forced convection heat transfer
- Heat transfer by thermal radiation
- Visualization of laminar, turbulent, and secondary pipe flows
- Measurement of velocity profiles
- Visualization of streamlines
- Demonstration of the continuity equation
- Demonstration of Bernoulli’s principle
- Air-to-water heat pump trainer
- Heat pipe: boiling and condensation
- Heat exchangers: shell-and-tube, plate, finned, and tubular heat exchangers
- Thermal imaging using an infrared camera
Research areas
- INTRAVIT — experimental facility for studying flow dynamics and instabilities in natural circulation systems.
- IGNITION — facility for investigating enriched high-pressure oxygen flows and associated thermo-fluid dynamics in pressure regulators installed in industrial piping.
- Cavitation test rig — facility for studying cavitation and thermal-hydraulic phenomena in Venturi tubes and orifice channels.
- MEDUSA — facility for membrane desalination simulations and related thermal-fluid investigations.
- Alternative working fluid facility — setup for studying boiling and heat transfer of alternative coolants and working fluids.
- Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) setup — non-intrusive optical measurement system for determining velocity fields in fluid flows, supporting experimental studies of flow dynamics, heat transfer, and thermal-fluid processes.
Users of the lab
Head of laboratory
Prof Stephan LEYER
Full professor in Mechanical engineering – Heat and mass transfer and thermodynamics