Analysis of Streamwise Velocity Fluctuations in Turbulent Pipe Flow with the Use of an Ultrasonic Doppler Flowmeter

Data collected from several studies of experimental and numerical nature in wall-bounded turbulent flows and in particular in internal flows (channel and pipe flows, Mochizuki and Nieuwstadt [1]) at different Reynolds numbers R ⁺(Ru _*/ν), indicate that: (i) the peak of the rms-value (normalized by u _*) of the streamwise velocity fluctuations (σ _u ⁺|_peak) is essentially independent of the Reynolds number, (ii) the position of the rms peak value (y ⁺|_peak) is weakly dependent of the Reynolds number, (iii) the skewness of the streamwise velocity fluctuations (S _u ) is close to zero at the position in which the variance has its peak. A series of measurements of streamwise velocity fluctuations has been performed in turbulent pipe flow with the use of an Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimeter and our results support those reported in [1]. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

光检测器参数对相位—多普勒粒子分析系统特性的影响

应用几何光学近似理论模型计算了激光相位多普勒系统中微粒的光散射特性,得到了散射光强与粒径关系、检测器表现的散射光强分布、相位差与粒径特性中的非线性跃变以及检测器形状对特性的影响。     

A New Model of Calculating Miniature Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Laser

Considering the broadening of infrared pumping laser, the spectrum of miniature optically pumped superradiant NH₃ far-infrared laser pumped by CO₂-10R(8) has been calculated by solving density matrix equations and using iteration method. It is first time that the theoretical spectrum has been in good agreement with experimental results.     

A Reference Optical System of Laser Doppler Longitudinal Displacement Measurement

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激光自混合多普勒测速法

利用激光自混合技术结合多普勒测速方法,来改进传统多普勒光路的光路复杂等缺陷.自混合技术中,反馈光会引起腔内的输出增益变化.根据激光的增益变化和频率变化成线性关系,可以对信号进行处理求出多普勒频移.用能量重心校正法对多普勒频移校正,进而得到物体的运动速度的模拟计算值.     

On vortex shedding from low aspect ratio dual step cylinders

A dual-step cylinder is comprised of two cylinders of different diameters. A large diameter cylinder (D) with low aspect ratio (L/D) is attached to the mid-span of a small diameter cylinder (d). The present study investigates the effect of Reynolds number (Re_D) and L/D on dual step cylinder wake development for D/d=2, 0.2≤L/D≤3, and two Reynolds numbers, Re_D=1050 and 2100. Experiments have been performed in a water flume facility utilizing flow visualization, Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV), and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The results show that vortex shedding occurs from both the large and small diameter cylinders for 1≤L/D≤3 at Re_D=2100 and 2≤L/D≤3 at Re_D=1050. At these conditions, large cylinder vortices predominantly form vortex loops in the wake and small cylinder vortices form half-loop vortex connections. At lower aspect ratios, vortex shedding from the large cylinder ceases, with the dominant frequency in the large cylinder wake attributed to the passage of vortex filaments connecting small cylinder vortices. At these lower aspect ratios, the presence of the large cylinder induces periodic vortex dislocations. Increasing L/D increases the frequency of occurrence of vortex dislocations and decreases the dominant frequency in the large cylinder wake. The identified changes in wake topology are related to substantial variations in the location of boundary layer separation on the large cylinder, and, consequently, changes in the size of the vortex formation region. The results also show that the Reynolds number has a substantial effect on wake vortex shedding frequency, which is more profound than that expected for a uniform cylinder.     

Phase-dependence of inversionless gain in a Doppler broadened open four-level system

The effect of the relative phase (?) between the probe and driving fields on the gain without inversion (GWI) in a Doppler broadened open quasi Λ-type four level atomic system with vacuum induced coherence (VIC) for both co- and counter-propagating probe and driving fields cases is studied. It is shown that: (1) GWI and the probe detuning region in which GWI exists are very sensitive to variation of the relative phase; when values of the other parameters keep unvarying, by adjusting value of ?, the largest GWI can be obtained. (2) The Doppler width (D) also has dramatically modulation role on the phase-dependent GWI. When value of D is smaller, the value of ? which corresponds to the largest value of GWI is about π, when value of D is large enough, it is about π/2. (3) GWI varies periodically with ? varying, the period is 2π, but the concrete variation rule is closely related to value of D. (4) In the co-propagating case we can obtain much larger GWI than that in the counter-propagating case.     

Effect of dual-frequency clutter suppression in harmonic Doppler detection

Background

High-frequency Doppler imaging is highly potential for detection of blood flow in microcirculation. In a swept-scan system, however, the spectral broadening of tissue clutter limits the detectability of low-velocity flow signal. Conventionally, the scanning speed of transducer has to be reduced to alleviate the clutter interference but at the cost of imaging frame rate. For example, the blood velocity of 0.5 mm/s becomes detectable only with a scanning speed lower than 1 mm/s. In this study, an alternative method is examined by suppressing the clutter magnitude to reduce the interference to flow signal without sacrificing scanning speed.

Methods

The method of third harmonic (3f₀) transmit phasing can suppress the tissue harmonic clutter by transmitting at the fundamental and the additional 3f₀ frequencies to achieve mutual cancellation between the frequency-sum and the frequency-difference components of the second harmonic signal. With 3f₀ transmit phasing, the cut-off frequency of wall filtering can be reduced to preserve low-velocity flow without compromising the frame rate.

Results

Our results indicate that the 3f₀ transmit phasing effectively reduces the harmonic clutter magnitude and thus improves the flow signal-to-clutter ratio. Compared to the conventional counterpart, the clutter-suppressed color flow and power Doppler images show fewer clutter artifacts and is capable of detecting more low-velocity flow of microbubbles. The resultant color-pixel-density also improves with clutter suppression.

Conclusion

For the swept-scan high-frequency (>20 MHz) system, 3f₀ transmit phasing is capable of providing effective clutter suppression. With the same achievable scanning speed, the resultant Doppler image has higher sensitivity for low-velocity flow and is less susceptible to clutter artifacts.     

基于裸光纤探头的双点光子多普勒测速系统

全光纤光子多普勒速度测量(PDV)系统是一种新型的激光测速系统,可广泛用于冲击波、爆轰波以及其他短时高速运动物体的速度测量。多点测量可以获得靶面不同位置的速度,以测量靶面的形变。为提高测量的空间分辨率,提出使用裸光纤束为PDV系统的探头,并在实验上实现了空间分辨率为375μm的双点速度测量。裸光纤探头的间距较小,一个探头的测量结果可能受到另一个探头反射光的干扰。理论和实验的研究结果表明,当靶面各点速度相同时,测量结果不受干扰光的影响;当各点速度不同时,其测速误差不但与两被测点的速度差有关,还与传感光和干扰光的光强和相位有关。