EuHIT

European High-performance Infrastructures in Turbulence

Advances in key economical and societal issues facing Europe, like transport, energy generation, climate change, or industrial, environmental and geophysical mixing processes are obstructed by the lack of understanding of turbulence. To date, models fail to explain many fundamental features of turbulence, from boundary layers and particle transport, to heat transport and turbulence in complex and quantum fluids. This has led several European countries to fund new large-scale turbulence facilities, unsurpassed in flow properties and measurement technologies. Currently these are not easily accessible to the larger EU scientific community. This inhibits the rapid advancement of research across Europe and hinders the optimal use of the resources, and their impact on the development of new advanced technologies and solutions. Recognizing this deficiency, the leading groups in turbulence research with members from 9 countries propose to form the European High-performance Infrastructures in Turbulence (EuHIT) within the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3). 14 Top-notch European infrastructures agreed to provide the research community with transnational access to their facilities. Joint research activities of the consortium will innovate and explore new fundamental technologies that will ensure efficient and joint use of these research infrastructures by creating harmonised and enhanced interfaces, improving data processing methods, and optimizing the quality and increasing the quantity of the services provided to researchers from academia and industry alike. A networking and educational program will be established to foster cooperation among research infrastructures and the scientific community, to train the next generation researchers in using the most modern equipment and data analysis techniques, and thus to develop a more efficient and attractive European Research Area.

Coordinator Max Planck Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E.V. (Germany)
Other participants:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Industriale Aeronautica- CIRI Aeronautica
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Alessandro Talamelli 
Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Univerzita Karlova V Praze (Czech Republic)
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Denmark)
Carl Von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg (Germany)
Technische Universitaet Ilmenau (Germany)
Universita Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)
Universiteit Twente (Netherlands)
Commissariat A L’Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives (France)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen Nurnberg (Germany)
Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique-CNRS (France)
European Organization For Nuclear Research (Switzerland)
Universita Degli Studi Di Torino (Italy)
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland)
United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organization-UNESCO (UN)
Brandenburgische Technische Universitaet Cottbus (Germany)
Consorzio Interuniversitario-CINECA (Italy)
Vision Research Europe B.V. (Netherlands)
Smartinst Sas (France)

Start date 01/04/2013

End date 31/03/2017

Duration 48 months

Project Reference 312778

Project cost 8.528.500,54 EURO

Project Funding 7.000.000 EURO 

Area FP7- CAPACITIES – INFRASTRUCTURES

Subprogramme Area INFRA-2012-1.1.20 Infrastructures for studying turbulence phenomena and applications

Contract type Combination of CP and CSA