Laboratory Development

I am a very active member of the research group in the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. A considerable amount of equipment was bought for  the laboratory from projects in which I was Principal or Co-investigator. A CFD laboratory extension was developed in Rooms 311 and 301 Northern Labs,  for which  money was spent from such projects. In 2005 January we purchased, for a cost of Rs. 5,000,000 (around US$100,000),  a 1/4^th part of a 96 node dual processor Linux cluster which is housed in the Central Computer Center. Apart from this, there are around 20 high-end P-4 machines and two Hewlett Packard printers kept online for the students in my CFD laboratory, in an area of around 650 sq.ft. Students of other faculty members of my group freely use these facilities. The numbers of students using the laboratory during any one year would number roughly around  5-8 PhD students, 10-15 Masters, and perhaps a dozen seasonal undergraduates (summer internees, research course students, etc).