Colour-coding schlieren techniques for the optical study of heat and fluid flow

This survey presents a unified view of the history, rationale, applications, and current status of colour-coding schlieren optical techniques, based on an extensive literature review. The characteristics and advantages of this unique flow visualization tool are discussed in terms of one- and two-dimensional colour-coding, qualitative and quantitative visualisations, and system sensitivity, range and resolution. In particular, the use of matched spatial filters to tailor the schlieren optics for specific applications is stressed. A wide range of past applications in fluid flow and heat transfer is surveyed. Connections are drawn among these applications and some new applications are discussed.     

合成纹影技术在二维密度场测量中的应用和精度研究

流体内部的密度差异会对流体运动产生很大影响,为观测流体内部密度场,本文采用了一种新的密度场测量技术——合成纹影技术,该技术根据流体内部密度(或溶质浓度)差异产生的折射率变化,定量分析得到流体平面二维偏移梯度分布,并通过计算得到密度场.合成纹影技术仅需要光源、背景板、摄像机和处理图像数据的计算机软硬件,即可实施非接触二维...     

Monitoring the inception of sediment transport by image processing techniques

 In this paper we present a non intrusive device to detect the inception of sediment transport and to measure bed load in low-submergence flows. A solid state linear CCD camera provides linear images of the sediment movements across a control section, located on the bottom of a laboratory flume. These arrays of information are reassembled to provide a raster image of the bottom of the flume in correspondence of the control section. An on-line operating image processing software counts the number of grains and evaluates their velocity. Received: 25 July 1996/Accepted: 3 February 1997     

Color-based image processing to measure local temperature distributions by wide-band liquid crystal thermography

This study presents a color-image-processing procedure for non-intrusive local temperature measurements by thermochromic liquid crystals (TLCs). The image evaluation software is completely independent of the color detection and acquisition hardware. This allows to use a wide variety of hardware solutions. An easy reproducible calibration of camera and light source is presented. The dependence of the detected hue values on intensity is investigated and further the hueversus temperature relation is studied.Sprayable TLC formulations and TLC-coated polyester sheets are studied and compared with regard to their signal-to-noise ratio and the dependence of their hue values on illumination and viewing angle. Furthermore, a method to investigate the hue resolution is presented. The relation between the resolution of hue values and the illumination intensity and its influence on signal noise is discussed for the first time for TLC applications. Different techniques of signal noise reduction are implemented in the image processing system. Their effects on the signal noise level are discussed. As an example the two dimensional temperature distribution caused by wing-type vortex generators in a channel flow is given.     

Effect of velocity and pipeline configuration on dispersion in turbulent hydrocarbon-water flow using laser image processing

Drop size distribution and concentration profile data for hydrocarbon-water mixtures are obtained in a 8.2 cm dia pipe at a range of velocities for a straight horizontal pipe, horizontal and vertical flow after one bend and vertical flow after three bends. The laser image processing technique employed in this project is proven reliable.

The maximum drop size (d₉₉), is more dependent on the number of upstream interactive bends than on the velocity. The drop size distributions follow a Rosin-Rammler power law. The values of Rosin-Rammler exponents, based on this work, are on average 2.1 for all the configurations studied.

The concentration profiles as a function of velocity for straight horizontal flow are obtained and show the transition from stratified to adequately dispersed flow at about 2.3 m/s velocity. The concentration profiles for horizontal or vertical flow after one bend show dispersed flow in some cases; however, in other cases swirling makes representative sampling more difficult.

Vertical downflow after three interactive bends breaks the droplets to a finer size, and concentration profiles obtained in this location are more uniform than the other configurations studied. Representative sampling can be accomplished in this location even at 0.7–1.0 m/s velocity, in a 8.2 cm pipe.     

基于数字图像处理的含缺陷混凝土破裂过程研究

混凝土破坏规律受其缺陷的影响,为了从细观尺度研究含缺陷混凝土破坏规律,基于数字图像处理技术表征混凝土骨料形状、大小及空间分布,运用RFPA2D-DIP软件构建混凝土真实细观模型并进行单轴压缩试验,研究了含不同缺陷混凝土的破坏规律。试验结果表明:相比完整试件,含缺陷试件强度更低,破坏过程应力跌落次数更多,其初始裂纹在预制裂隙及孔洞两端萌生,缺陷与新裂纹的贯通最终导致试件破坏;混凝土中同时存在孔洞和裂隙时,孔洞与裂隙相互影响并形成应力集中的岩桥区域,当孔洞直径不变时,随着裂隙长度增加,试件峰值强度下降,在同一裂隙长度下,随着孔洞直径增大,混凝土峰值强度降低。     

Measurement of product concentration of two parallel reactive jets using digital image processing

The chemically sensitive LIF technique [9] is employed to study the mixing of two reactive axisymmetric jets, one of which carries fluorescein, in an ambient quiescent fluid. The degree of mixing depends on the jet spacing and the axial position downstream of the jets and power laws are found to hold for some concentration characteristics. Unlike the far velocity field of dual plane jets, self preservation laws are not found to hold in general for the concentration field.     

The effect of an acoustic field on a secondary convective flow in a layer

The effect of a traveling sonic wave on a convective flow in a horizontal layer with a fixed linear temperature distribution on the boundaries is investigated. Convective rolls with axes parallel to the basic flow (lengthwise rolls) are considered. On the basis of a weakly nonlinear analysis, it is shown that the lengthwise rolls appear smoothly and the regular flows are stable near the stability threshold. A direct numerical simulation is performed. Secondary near-critical flow regimes and regimes corresponding to finite supercriticalities are investigated.     

A review of measurements of heat flux density applicable to the field of combustion

The techniques that have been developed for the measurement of heat flux density are reviewed briefly. These techniques may be divided into two broad categories: (1) indirect methods based on the fundamental theories of heat transfer and (2) direct methods using a heat flux density sensor. Various methods are compared in order to stimulate further research and the development of sophisticated techniques for the measurement of heat flux density in the field of combustion.     

Particle image velocimetry （PIV） measurements of tip vortex wake structure of wind turbine

Large-view flow field measurements using the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique with high resolution CCD cameras on a rotating 1/8 scale blade model of the NREL UAE phase VI wind turbine are conducted in the engineering-oriented Φ3.2 m wind tunnel.The motivation is to establish the database of the initiation and development of the tip vortex to study the flow structure and mechanism of the wind turbine.The results show that the tip vortex first moves inward for a very short period and then moves out...     

Quantitative limits of thermal and fluid phenomena measurements using the neutron attenuation characteristics of materials

Temporal and spatial resolution of the neutron radiographic technique were investigated in order to apply this technique to the visualization and measurement of thermal and fluid phenomena. The temporal resolution of three imaging methods of temporally resolved neutron radiography-static neutron radiography with a pulsed neutron beam and high frame rate neutron radiography with either a pulsed or steady neutron beam-was studied. It was determined that the temporal resolution was determined by the sensitivity and light decay time of the image detector and statistical variation of neutrons, and the resolution limits of static and dynamic imaging methods were estimated to be a few microseconds and a few hundred microseconds, respectively. An image processing method was proposed to measure flow characteristics such as void fraction. By performing an error analysis to calculate the limit value of liquid film thickness that can be measured by neutron radiography, it was determined that the limit value of a rectangular channel gap or round tube diameter should be smaller than 3.25 or 4.00 mm, respectively, for measuring the void fraction of air-water flow within an error of 10%. The void fraction measuring method was experimentally confirmed by comparing the void fraction values in a rectangular duct with a 2.4-mm gap obtained by neutron radiography with those obtained by optical and conductance probe methods. It was shown quantitatively that the measurement error decreased when consecutive frames were temporally integrated.     

Mesoscale measurement of strains by analyzing optical images of the surface of loaded solids

An algorithm for estimating the strains in solids at the mesoscale level, which is based on constructing fields of displacement vectors and calculating strain components, is studied and tested. Verification of the method is performed by comparing the analytically calculated strain components with experimental data obtained on the basis of model images and images recorded by a TOMSC optical TV measurement system during tension of polymer samples. The estimates of the strain components obtained by a correlation analysis of images are shown to be in good agreement with the results of analytical calculations for known loading parameters and sizes of the images under analysis. The results of the study confirm that the TOMSC system can be used to estimate local strains by processing images of the surface of loaded samples of materials. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 158–164, November–December, 2006.     

Effects of the anomalous temperature dependence of water density on surface gravity current

This paper reports experimental results on the propagation of a plane water jet at a temperature above the maximum-density temperature (4° C) along the free surface of initially quiescent water at a temperature of about 0°C. For comparison, experiments were performed in which the temperatures of the lower and higher layers were more than 4°C, other conditions being equal. The experiments revealed a number of new hydrodynamic effects, including peculiar flow instability and a fine structure of the density field at large times.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 63–69, January–February, 2005     

Numerical simulation of incompressible flow driven by density variations during phase change1

A change in density during the solidification of alloys can be an important driving force for convection, especially at reduced levels of gravity. A model is presented that accounts for shrinkage during the directional solidification of dendritic binary alloys under the assumption that the densities of the liquid and solid phases are different but constant. This leads to a non‐homogeneous mass conservation equation, which is numerically treated in a finite element formulation with a variable penalty coefficient that can resolve the velocity field correctly in the all‐liquid region and in the mushy zone. The stability of the flow when shrinkage interacts with buoyancy flows at low gravity is examined. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

陷落腔的流场数值计算研究

本文对有限分析解法的近似计算方法及其对计算精度的影响进行了数值计算和分析讨论；然后采用有限分析解法，对前、后壁壁缘高度不同的三种腔内流场运动发展过程及腔口剪切层运动情况作了数值计算，得到的腔口剪切层上腔口随边相互作用情况与对应腔的流场显示实验结果进行了比较，两者一致，计算结果表明，采用本文发展的近似方法计算可靠，可以较大地提高计算效率。     

Deformation measurements by digital image correlation: Implementation of a second-order displacement gradient

This paper outlines the procedure for refining the digital image correlation (DIC) method by implementing a second-order approximation of the displacement gradients. The second-order approximation allows the DIC method to directly measure both the first- and second-order displacement gradients resulting from nonlinear deformation. Thirteen unknown parameters, consisting of the components of displacement, the first- and second-order displacement gradients and the gray-scale value offset, are determined through optimization of a correlation coefficient. The previous DIC method assumes that the local deformation in a subset of pixels is represented by a first-order Taylor series approximation for the displacement gradient terms, so actual deformations consisting of higher order displacement gradients tend to distort the infinitesimal strain measurements. By refining the method to measure both the first- and second-order displacement gradients, more accurate strain measurements can be achieved in large-deformation situations where second-order deformations are also present. In most cases, the new refinements allow the DIC method to maintain an accuracy of ±0.0002 for the first-order displacement gradients and to reach ±0.0002 per pixel for the second-order displacement gradients.     

Investigation of possibility of flow field diagnostics by laser induced biacetyl phosphorescence

Experimental results of laser induced phosphorescence of biacetyl triplet³A _u in a mixture of biacetyl and N₂ show that: the lifetime of phosphorescence is a function of temperature and independent of density and concentration; the initial phosphorescence intensity is a linear function of density and insensitive to the variation of temperature. The temperature and density distribution of gas flow could be measured by observing the phosphorescence lifetime and initial intensity of biacetyl mixed with N₂ respectively. The velocity distribution could be measured by observing the time-of-flight of the gaseous phosphorescent spot under pulsed laser excitation. Compared with Doppler anemometer, it, to a great extent, avoids the particle lag problem in flow field with large velocity gradient. The phosphorescence decay mechanism is also analysed and the analytical results agree with experimental ones. The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and The Third World Academy.