IIHR Facilities

A strength of IIHR has been its continuing and visionary commitment to maintaining and enhancing its experimental facilities while at the same time pioneering efforts in high-speed computational analysis and simulation of complex flow phenomena. What perhaps makes IIHR unique among fluids research laboratories is its state-of-the-art, in-house capabilities for both computational and physical modeling and experimentation. This permits varying, yet complementary, approaches for investigation and solution of a wide variety of flow problems. Research facilities of IIHR include many hydraulics flumes, air- and water-flow units, and more routine experimental apparatus and instruments, as well as the specialized facilities described below.  They are housed in several IIHR buildings in the Iowa City/Coralville area, and a state-of-the-art research facility along the Mississippi River.

IIHR Facilities and Specialized Laboratory Instrumentation