The newly renovated Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Yale University is now occupied and research projects are ongoing studying the effect of localized buoyancy forcing associated with the freezing of seawater in leads on large scale thermohaline circulation and the general issue of the fate of density currents on slopes, the role of shear in creating large scale solidification morphologies in mushy layers, forced two-dimensional turbulence, the circulation in lake Vostok, among others.   Mathew Wells,  Jerome Neufeld and other colleagues are working on these projects.

Photographs of the lab before occupation are as follows.   A view back to the entrance of the lab; the door on the left with the clock over it is the entrance and that on the right leads to a preparation and gas handing and storage room.  Note (perhaps) that there is a small step in the floor on the close side of the work table.  That step demarcates the boundary of the northeast section of the room, with a floor to ceiling window, in which an ASI rotating table will be operating and the entire laboratory can be divided, by blackout curtins, into four sections for the simultaneous operation of several projects.   The sinks along the east and west walls of the laboratory have mixer taps and dionized water sources.  They are big enough to measure one's displacement volume (260 x 48 x 26 cm³ ).  A different view of the west wall shows the chalkboard, blackout curtin and the left component of the raised double bucket system, shown completely in this perspective of the northwest corner of the room.  Coiled power supplies are located on the ceiling in each quadrant of the room and power and gas ring the waist.  The room has four independent temperature and humidity control units.  

Our work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the Leonard X. Bosack and Bette M. Kruger Foundation and Yale University.