Particle Image Velocimetry

Particle Image Velocimetry
Author: Michel Stanislas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401725438

The aeronautics industry is presently aiming for faster design cycles and shorter time to market of new aircraft. It is looking at the same time for improved aerodynamic performance, for evident competitive reasons. Advanced, computer based design systems, including fast and reliable numerical flow solvers, have been developed in the last decade including new turbulence models. On the experimental side, measurement techniques in general have also been improved significantly, however the data evaluation process remains still very time consuming, and unsteady effects and turbulence are often not being captured with sufficient accuracy and detail. The development of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has helped to improve the analysis of the flow fields. After investigations in laboratory scale wind tunnels, a joint initiative on PIV research, by the European Aerospace Research Establishments, within GARTEUR have enabled a wide breakthrough of this new technology in Europe. Within the Research Framework Program of the European Union, the joint research project EUROPIV aimed to apply PIV technology to problems of industrial interest.

Master's Theses Directories

Master's Theses Directories
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1999
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:

"Education, arts and social sciences, natural and technical sciences in the United States and Canada".

Three-Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry System

Three-Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry System
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 2003
Genre:
ISBN:

The PIV instrumentation was requested to support two AFOSR-funded research projects. The first project is entitled "Hybrid Control of Turbulent Jets" (Grant No. F49620-00-1-0255). The hybrid approach combines both passive and active control techniques to enhance the mixing characteristics of a turbulent jet flow. The second project is entitled "A Study of the Formation and Scaling of a Synthetic Jet" (Grant No. F49620-01-1-0301). This project is examining the internal and external flow-fields in a synthetic jet actuator and aims at developing scaling laws and design rules for these actuators.

Three Dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry Using Synthetic Aperture Imaging

Three Dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry Using Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Author: Abhishek Bajpayee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

3D visualization of fluid flow is of critical significance to a number of applications ranging from micro-scale medical devices to design of ships and airplanes. Of the various techniques currently used to visualize flow fields, particle image velocimetry (PIV) offers great advantages because of the high resolution quantitative results it provides. The feasibility of using synthetic aperture (SA) imaging to conduct 3D Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has been previously demonstrated. This thesis presents the development of a technique that extends SA imaging to 3D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV), adding the ability to conduct Lagrangian studies on flow fields over time. A new method has been developed to accurately locate seeding particles in volumes reconstructed using SA imaging, based on a proposed thresholding and average intensity based scheme, which is able to locate particles in densely seeded flows. In addition, a new and much faster method for reconstructing volumes, based on a homography fit (HF) refocusing method, is proposed which facilitates rapid processing of large amounts of data recorded using high speed cameras for example. The capability of using SA imaging to conduct PTV is demonstrated by tracking located particles using the relaxation based algorithm. The developed technique provides accurate and high resolution PTV results at a much higher computation speed compared to other state of the art techniques. If engineered further,the presented technique has the potential to become the method of choice to conduct velocimetry.