Particle Tracking Velocimetry using the genetic algorithm

A new concept genetic algorithm (GA) has been implemented and tested for the use in the 2-D and 3-D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV). The algorithm is applicable to particle images with larger (greater than 2000) number of particles without losing the excellent accuracy in the particle matching results. This is mainly due to a new fitness function as well as unique genetic operations devised especially for the purpose of particle matching problem. The new fitness function is based on the relaxation of movement of a group of particles and is particularly suited for an increased density of particle images. The unique genetic operations give rise to the concentration of more fit genes in the forward part of the gene strings where the crossover and mutation processes are suppressed. The new algorithm also profits from the new genetic encoding scheme which can deal with the loss-of-pair particles (i.e., those particles which exist in one frame but do not have their matching pair in the other frame), a typical problem in the real image particle tracking velocimetry. In the present study, the new method is tested with 2-D and 3-D synthetic as well as real particle images with a large number of particles.     

Digital Holographic Particle Tracking Velocimetry for 3-D Transient Flow around an Obstacle in a Narrow Channel

Digital holographic particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is developed by single high-speed camera and single double pulsed laser with high frequency pulses. This system can directly capture 1000 hologram fringe images for 1 second through a camera computer memory. The 3-D particle location is made of the reconstruction by using a computer hologram algorithm in a personal computer. This system can successfully be applied to instantaneous 3-D velocity measurement in the water flow with a square obstacle, and can obtain an average of 300 instantaneous velocity vectors.     

The use of ultrasonic standing waves to enhance optical particle sizing equipment

Fluid dynamics modelling augmented with routines to simulate acoustic forces on aerosol particles has been used to investigate the potential of combining ultrasonic standing wave fields with optical particle analysis equipment. Simulations of particle dynamics in airstreams incorporating acoustic forces predict that particles in the 1-10 microns diameter range may be effectively focused to the velocity nodes of the standing wave field. Particles move to the velocity nodes within tens of milliseconds for acoustic frequencies of 10-100 kHz and at an acoustic energy density of 100 Jm-3. Larger particles are predicted to move to the velocity antinodes within similar times; however, there is a crossover region at approximately 15-20 microns particle diameter where longer times are predicted due to the competing forces driving particles to the vibration node and antinode. With sufficient transverse flow velocities the models predict that disturbances due to acoustic streaming can be overcome and a useful degree of focusing achieved for the aerosol particles. Results from a model demonstrating sampling and acoustic focusing of 3-9 microns aerosol particles to a 200 microns wide analysis area are presented.     

驻波声场中圆柱形管道周围颗粒的运动特性

针对圆柱形管道外部的流体与颗粒介质运动问题,提出了结合圆柱周围声辐射力和声流Stokes力的研究方法。从柱体外部声流方程出发,得到影响涡流结构的无量纲参数Rem≥325.27时,外涡最大流速大于内涡最大流速。在此基础上,采用Nyborg的边界滑移速度理论,获得管道外部声流的极限滑移速度,推导得出圆柱附近的声辐射力公式。基于此公式,在理论上推导出颗粒速度为0、声辐射力和声流Stokes力平衡时,颗粒临界直径的表达式。通过对圆柱位于不同位置时,圆柱外部的颗粒运动进行仿真模拟,得到与理论公式相一致的结论:颗粒的临界直径的大小与声波频率有关,当颗粒直径小于临界直径时,声流Stokes力为主导,颗粒随声流运动,颗粒直径大于等于临界直径时,声辐射力为主导,颗粒在声辐射力作用下逐渐向声辐射力的节点聚集。理论与仿真结果表明该方法可用于分析管道外颗粒的分布状态,其研究结果有助于解决电站中换热器的管道结垢、热交换率降低等问题。     

Numerical studies on velocity, temperature history and heat transfer to the particles injected into the argon plasma

A new approach to study the particle velocity in a thermal plasma in relation to input parameters (power, gas flow rate, injection velocity of the particle and particle size) and nozzle dimensions (nozzle length and diameter) has been made. Injected particle's temperature and thermal history were calculated for particles of three different materials (alumina, tungsten and graphite) in argon plasma. Allowable powder feed rate was calculated for the particles. Heat transfer per particle injected in to the plasma is reported. Liquid fraction of the particle after it reached the melting point is also reported. Particle velocity is found to increase with increase in power, gas flow rate and injection velocity and decrease with increase in particle size, nozzle length and nozzle diameter. Thermal histories of the particles in relation to the plasma temperature and particle diameter are presented. Particle's residence time is found to increase with increase in diameter of the particle. Allowable powder feed rate for complete melting of the particle is higher at higher percentage utilisation of the plasma power. Powder feed rate is seen to decrease with increase in particle size and it is higher for tungsten and lower for graphite particle. Heat transfer rate from plasma to particle is seen to decrease with increase in time and the same is higher for plasmas of higher temperature and smaller sized particle. Received 4 May 2000 and Received in final form 15 March 2001     

3-D PTV measurement on turbulence modification due to an oil droplet in a plane Couette water flow

Three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry (3-D PTV) measurements with a two-camera system have been conducted for a turbulent water plane Couette flow with an oil droplet in order to understand the modification of shear-dominant turbulence by the droplet. The parameters of the stereogrammetry, which are crucial for calculating the spatial coordinate of tracer particles from 2-D images of two cameras, have been determined with a careful calibration. The experimental results show that the axial and wall-normal turbulence intensities and the turbulent kinetic energy are enhanced locally in the confluence regions where axial main flow over the interface meets the secondary flow along the interface in the wall-normal direction. The secondary flows were observed only around the equator of the droplet. The wall-normal and transverse turbulence intensities are found to increase in the region above the droplet. This is due to the change in the direction of the primary flow over the top of the droplet. The turbulence in the other region is attenuated mainly because of the attenuation of the generation and evolution of the coherent structure in the neighbourhood of the droplet.     

一种新的光子多普勒速度频谱分析方法

光子多普勒速度计可给出飞层表面某一速度带内颗粒群速度随时间演化的频谱数据, 在冲击动力学实验尤其是微喷射及其混合研究中得到广泛应用. 本文提出一种新的光子多普勒频谱数据分析方法, 可推断出混合区厚度变化和前端等效颗粒尺度. 利用该方法, 对一些典型状态下喷射混合速度频谱开展分析, 获得了不同冲击压力、气体条件下颗粒度数据, 证实了气体环境下喷射颗粒的气动破碎现象, 以及破碎后尺度与初始条件的依赖性, 为喷射混合物理规律研究提供了重要依据.     

Visualization of saltating sand particle movement near a flat ground surface

Movement of natural sand particles (d=200−300 μm) in a simulated atmospheric boundary layer was visualized using a digital high-speed camera. The consecutive particle images recorded at 2000 fps (frame per second) enabled us to observe the particle transport in detail, especially near the flat sand surface. Various modes of sand saltation were identified. The transverse motion of particles, often ignored in previous studies, was also visualized. In addition, instantaneous velocity fields of saltating particles were obtained using a particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), and statistical analysis of saltating particle trajectories was performed. The qualitative and quantitative results of the present study will be useful for understanding the basic physics of transport of saltating sand particles.     

考虑电离作用的淤泥异向絮凝三维数值模拟

鉴于试验观察淤泥絮凝结构的技术难度,本文尝试以布朗动力学为基础,采用蒙特卡洛方法动态模拟电离作用下颗粒成长为絮团的过程.为结合实际情况,泥沙颗粒初始位置由颗粒粒径和淤泥密度决定,颗粒初始速度按照相应条件下高斯随机分布给定.边界条件用和实际符合较好的循环边界.在模拟数据分析的基础上,讨论并比较了颗粒粒径和淤泥密度对絮凝时间以及絮团开放程度的影响.另一方面,讨论了电离作用后颗粒电荷量对絮团生长的影响.解释了泥沙颗粒表面电荷密度变化对絮凝过程和絮团结构的影响,模拟结果和实际情况较为一致.     

Quantitative analysis of holographic particle data

There are several well known difficulties in forming and analysing holographic particle data in the micrometre and submicrometre size range. This paper suggests that these problems can be overcome by using a combination of research techniques. Firstly, it has been found that it is possible to record images of submicrometre particles by using conventional photographic materials. Essentially, a diffraction limited optical component has been used to provide aberration free particle images. Secondly, the sensitivity of the holographic material has been increased with the use of specialized holographic processing chemicals. Thirdly, it has been found that it is possible to encode holographically double, slightly displaced, particle images by using a pulse laser. Thus, Young's fringes can be obtained directly from the stored holographic data, and the particle velocity can be measured directly from the hologram. Fourthly, the holographic particle data can be automatically analysed, using a software program. Finally since the data is stored holographically, it is possible to obtain instantaneous 3-D particle velocities. This paper demonstrates that it is possible to perform holographic particle image velocimetry automatically, with only a small amount of preprocessing.     

Condensation Characteristics of Flue Gas/Steam Mixtures with Fine Lignite and Ash Particles along Horizontal Finned Tube Bundles

The condensation behavior for a gas/steam mixture with fine lignite particles and lignite ash particles is experimentally investigated as the particles flow over horizontal finned tube bundles. The effects of the gas velocity, inlet temperature of cooling water, excess air coefficient, and particle dimension are discussed. The total mass flow rate of the condensate and the condensation heat transfer coefficient for flue gas including particles are higher than those of flue gas excluding particles when Reynolds number is higher than 2,300. The area covered by ash depositions tends to grow from the leeward toward the windward side with increasing particle diameter.     

A novel particle tracking velocimetry method for complex granular flow field

Particle tracking velocimetry(PTV) is one of the most commonly applied granular flow velocity measurement methods. However, traditional PTV methods may have issues such as high mismatching rates and a narrow measurement range when measuring granular flows with large bulk density and high-speed contrast. In this study, a novel PTV method is introduced to solve these problems using an optical flow matching algorithm with two further processing steps. The first step involves displacement correction, which is used to solve the mismatching problem in the case of high stacking density.The other step is trajectory splicing, which is used to solve the problem of a measurement range reduction in the case of high-speed contrast The hopper flow experimental results demonstrate superior performance of this proposed method in controlling the number of mismatched particles and better measuring efficiency in comparison with the traditional PTV method.     

Development and evaluation of an improved correlation based PTV method

An improved correlation based Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) algorithm was proposed in the present paper. The path tracking of the tracer particles was achieved through a correlation operation of the small interrogation window around the studied tracer particles at two-time steps. The central positions of the tracer particles were determined by the correlation operation of the tracer particle image with a Gaussian particle mask in order to improve the accuracy to identify the central positions of particles up to sub-pixel level. The performance of the present improved correlation based Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) algorithm was evaluated by using both synthetic VSJ standard PIV images and actual PIV images of a self-induced sloshing. Compared with other conventional PTV methods, the present improved correlation based PTV algorithm was found to be able to provide better solution and more robust for suppression the effect of background noise in the PIV images.     

流速比对颗粒在液固两相平板混合层中沉降的影响

本文采用流动显示的方法对平板混合层中上下层流体速度比对固体颗粒在混合层中沉降的影响进行了研究。实验中分别采用粒径小于 ４０ ｕｍ,粒径 ９８～１０４ｕｍ,粒径 １５４～１６０ｕｍ的玻璃微珠以及环氧树脂作为固相颗粒,对这些颗粒在速度比分别为１：１．２、１：２和１：２．８的液相混合层中的运动进行了显示。结果表明混合层中大涡结构对固体颗粒的沉降具有迟滞作用,其作用程度取决于混合层中上下层流体速度比。速度比越大,颗粒的沉降越慢。     

Volume three-dimensional flow measurements using wavelength multiplexing

Optically distinguishable seeding particles that emit light in a narrow bandwidth, and a combination of bandwidths, were prepared by encapsulating quantum dots. The three-dimensional components of the particles' displacement were measured within a volume of fluid with particle tracking velocimetry (PTV). Particles are multiplexed to different hue bands in the camera images, enabling an increased seeding density and (or) fewer cameras to be used, thereby increasing the measurement spatial resolution and (or) reducing optical access requirements. The technique is also applicable to two-phase flow measurements with PTV or particle image velocimetry, where each phase is uniquely seeded.     

惯性颗粒所见流场拓扑结构

本文采用直接数值模拟的方法从颗粒所见的流场拓扑结构这一角度探讨了颗粒在不同拓扑结构下速度统计特性.结果表明,不同惯性的颗粒所见流体的速度特性类似,在Top1和Top2结构中,随时间演化而减少,而在Top3和Top4结构中随时间有波浪性的增长;由于颗粒惯性的差异引起的轨道交叉效应不同,颗粒与颗粒所见流体速度的关联随颗粒增大而衰减加剧,在颗粒与流体相之间的能量传递中,不同拓扑结构明显不同,从颗粒加入时能量由颗粒相向流体传递,各拓扑结构的相对强度为Top2>Top4>Top1>Top3,演化到后期能量由流体相向颗粒相传递,相对强度为Top1>Top2>Top3>Top4;st=1.0和st=10.0的颗粒差别在于演化后期Top2和Top3相对强度的转变.     

An Experimental Investigation of Forced Convection Heat Transfer from a Coiled Heat Exchanger Embedded in a Packed Bed

Forced convection heat transfer from a helically coiled heat exchanger embedded in a packed bed of spherical glass particles was investigated experimentally. With dry air at ambient pressure and temperature as a flowing fluid, the effect of particle size, helically coiled heat exchanger diameter, and position was studied for a wide range of Reynolds numbers. It was found that the particle diameter, the helically coiled heat exchanger diameter and position, and the air velocity are of great influence on the convective heat transfer between the helically coiled heat exchanger and air. Results indicated that the heat transfer coefficient increased with increasing the air velocity, increasing helically coiled heat exchanger diameter, and decreasing the particle size. The highest heat transfer coefficients were obtained with the packed-bed particle size of 16 mm and heat exchanger coil diameter of 9.525 mm (1/4 inch) at a Reynolds number range of 1,536 to 4,134 for all used coil positions in the conducted tests. A dimensionless correlation was proposed for Nusselt number as a function of Reynolds number, particle size, coil size, and coil position.     

Velocity measurements in a turbulent round jet using PTV: the effect of tracer particles

The effects of different tracer particles used in the PTV technique on the velocity field are investigated. The measurements are taken in a water round jet at a Reynolds number equal to about 40000, a flow field widely examined in the literature, in which strong velocity differences are encountered. The interest is focused onto particles with different density. Although the mean and rms values are almost unaffected, both measurements obtained with light and heavy particles (in comparison to the density of the fluid) reveal a modified velocity field. The moments of velocity differences (structure functions) point out that such a modification is felt within each range of flow scales. Particles with density almost equal to that of the fluid reproduce the flow behaviour over all the scales.     

空间发展湍流气粒两相平面混合层的大涡模拟与统计

本文对空间发展的湍流气固两相平面混合层流动进行了大涡模拟研究,其中气相亚网格尺度（SGS）使用结构函数模型,气相控制方程组采用SIMPLE方法求解,固体颗粒运动用拉格朗日方法计算。计算结果正确重现了流体涡结构的卷起、合并和破碎过程,以及小尺寸颗粒在涡边缘（低涡度区）的局部富集现象。对直径分别为42μm、72μm和135μm分别进行了模拟,并将统计结果和实验测量结果（Hishida　et　al[1]）比较,表明两者的平均速度吻合很好,但颗粒数密度和脉动速度存在较明显的差异,因此有必要对亚网格应力和颗粒之间的耦合作用以及拟序结构的三维性对颗粒运动的影响开展深入研究。