The Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory (former name: Saint Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory) is a research laboratory situated on Hennepin Island in the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Its primary research is in "Engineering, Environmental, Biological, and Geophysical Fluid Mechanics". It is affiliated with the University of Minnesota.
The laboratory is unique in that its location next to Saint Anthony Falls allows it to use the hydraulic head from the waterfall to provide water for many of the experiments.
The experiments performed at the laboratory are varied, and include:
- Contract civil and environmental engineering work, such as dam construction and removal
- Understanding river system dynamics
- Work with oil exploration to characterize deposits in deltaic systems
- Work to understand the interactions between fluid flow and the ecology of rivers
- Work to understand cavitation in fluids in order to build better propellers
The Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory is also the headquarters of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center.
Read more about Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory: Research Programs
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