Department
of Civil Engineering
Laboratory for Hydraulic Engineering, Energy and the Environ
Applied Science – Application generates knowledge
The Hydraulics, Energy and Environment Laboratory has been specifically designed for practice-oriented teaching. Using a variety of test set-ups, our students gain a deep understanding of key physical principles in the fields of hydraulic engineering, energy and the environment.
The experiments are designed in such a way that they always establish concrete links to real-world problems. Prospective graduates of Hochschule München can thus develop, as researchers, the ability to ‘read’ complex formulas – that is, to relate the individual mathematical terms in equations (the theory) to practical applications.
In education
For our bachelor's degree and master's degree programme students, we organise laboratory exercises, course projects and final assignments in areas such as laminar flow, pipe hydraulics, pumps, overturning stability, groundwater flow, river morphology, Energy Technology, wind power, hydropower and heat pumps. Students operate the test rigs independently, record the results and analyse them. The subsequent discussion of the findings is particularly important.
In research
The experimental facility was designed specifically for teaching purposes. It is therefore a teaching laboratory which is not intended for research purposes.
Facilities
The Hydraulics, Energy and Environment Laboratory is equipped with the following instruments and software packages
Hardware:
- Flow channel test rig (tilting flume with various components, sediment transport, wave generator)
- Wind Power and Energy Self-Sufficiency Test Facility
- Hydropower test rig (Kaplan, Francis and Pelton turbines)
- Heat pump test rig
- Fluid Mechanics Test Bench
- Pump Dynamics Test Bench
- Groundwater Flow Test Rig
- Test setup for stability
- Experimental setup for hydrostatic pressure
- Mobile flood barrier
- Flood box
- Digital stroboscope
- Flow meters
- Various weirs / Venturi channel / sluice gates
- Measuring vane
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP basic model)
- Video camera
- Water softener
- PCs, laptops, printers, Raspberry Pis
- Slider (cutaway view)
- Aluminium workboat (approx. 6.5 m in length)
Software / Numerical Analysis
- Gunt Tax and Analysis Software
- GGU-2D-SSFLOW
- HEC-RAS
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Kostra
