A particle-image based wave profile measurement technique

Wave profile measurements are important for computing wave characteristics and for studying the aqueous boundary layer formed beneath surface waves. The measurement technique presented here made use of digital imagery and a detection algorithm referred to as the variable threshold method. The technique can measure wind generated waves as short as 10 pixels (1.44 mm) in wavelength. The average r.m.s. quantization error was found to be ±0.29 pixels (±0.04 mm) using simulated wave profiles and the average bias error was estimated to be 0.07 pixels (0.01 mm) from real still water profiles. The magnitude of all other types of random errors was estimated to be approximately ±0.64 pixels (±0.09 mm) using real wind wave profiles. A series of morphological operations, used to correct for non-uniform seed densities, improved the accuracy of the detected wave profiles by a factor of five. The variable threshold method detected real wind wave profiles 3.5 times more accurately than the standard constant threshold method and had total r.m.s. errors that ranged from ±0.7 (±0.1 mm) to ±1.1 (±0.16 mm) pixels.     

Digital speckle correlation for strain measurement by image analysis

This paper is concerned with small strain measurement utilizing the numerical processing of digital images. The proposed method has its theoretical basis in digital signal analysis and, from a methodological point of view, it can be considered as an extension to digital images of the wellknown white light speckle photography technique. That conventional method is based on the analysis of photographic plates that are exposed twice (before and after the specimen deformation) with the image of a random speckle pattern that has been previously printed on the test piece surface. The digital speckle correlation advantages consist of requiring a very simple specimen preparation and, mainly, of allowing the strain field computation just by numerical elaboration of the acquired images. In this paper, the theoretical basis of the technique and some valuable improvements to the known analogous methodologies are presented. Finally, test results for an application of digital speckle correlation are shown and advantages and disadvantages of the technique are elaborated. In addition, further developments in this area are discussed.     

Surface image velocimetry for measuring short wind wave kinematics

Techniques are developed here for determining the propagation speeds of short wind waves from surface slope images. The surface slope images are taken in experiments at three different wind-wave facilities in Heidelberg, Marseilles, and San Diego. Travel distances of wavelets of different scales are determined from image pairs captured within a very short time interval by both wavelet tracking and coherence analysis methods. It is shown, for the first time by direct measurements, that most of the short wind waves are dispersive.     

Lateral compression of thin-walled tubes: Strain measurement by image analysis

An experimental technique based on image analysis is proposed for the measurement of the strain field in tubes subjected to lateral collapse. Data are numerically treated to reduce the experimental error, and a correction to account for the curvature of the profile is introduced. The results, also compared with others obtained with electrical strain gages, confirm the validity of an existing model for strain and crushing force prediction.     

Velocity profile measurement by ultrasonic doppler method

The ultrasonic velocity profile measuring method has been developed at PSI for application in fluid mechanics and fluid flow measurement. It uses pulsed ultrasonic echography together with the detection of the instantaneous Doppler shift frequency. This method has the following advantages over the conventional techniques: (1) an efficient flow mapping process, (2) applicability to opaque liquids, and (3) a record of the spatiotemporal velocity field. After a brief introduction of its principle, the characteristics and specifications of the present system are given. Then examples in fluid engineering for oscillating pipe flow, T-branching flow of mercury, and recirculating flow in a square cavity are described that confirm the method's advantages. Several other works under way by other investigators are introduced. A potential for in-depth study of fluid dynamics is demonstrated by several examples from an investigation of modulated wavy flows in a rotating Couette system. The position-averaged power spectrum and the time-averaged energy spectral density were used to study the dynamic characteristics of the flow, and subsequently the velocity field was decomposed into its intrinsic wave structure based on two-dimensional Fourier analysis.     

声振耦合分析在冲击波测量中的应用

为了高精度地测量空气冲击波形,采用声振耦合分析对该测量系统的频响特性进行了理论计算,并在激波管中进行了动态响应实验。通过上述研究,得出了探头在3个不同量程时的适宜阻尼孔径。结果表明,探头的阻尼孔直径和波形上升时间的计算值与实验值都是基本符合的,并且该测量系统在强爆炸中测得的冲击波压力波形也具有良好的频响特性。     

Size distribution measurement for densely binding bubbles via image analysis

For densely binding bubble clusters, conventional image analysis methods are unable to provide an accurate measurement of the bubble size distribution because of the difficulties with clearly identifying the outline edges of individual bubbles. In contrast, the bright centroids of individual bubbles can be distinctly defined and thus accurately measured. By taking this advantage, we developed a new measurement method based on a linear relationship between the bubble radius and the radius of its bright centroid so to avoid the need to identify the bubble outline edges. The linear relationship and method were thoroughly tested for 2D bubble clusters in a highly binding condition and found to be effective and robust for measuring the bubble sizes.     

Effect of the measurement volume in turbulent pipe flow measurement by the ultrasonic velocity profile method (mean velocity profile and Reynolds stress measurement)

 The ultrasonic velocity profile measurement method has some favorable advantages over the conventional flow measurement methods, such as measurement of the instantaneous velocity profile over the measuring line and its applicability to opaque liquids. The method has another advantage of being non-intrusive. Hence, it is applicable to various flow conditions, although it requires a relatively large measurement volume. In this paper, the effects of the measurement volume on the mean velocity profile and the Reynolds stress measurement have been investigated for fully developed turbulent flows in a vertical pipe. The results were then compared with data obtained by direct numerical simulation. Received: 9 March 2000 / Accepted: 27 March 2001 Published online: 29 November 2001     

Temperature measurement of reflected shock wave by using chemical indicator

This report describes a new method for measuring the temperature of the gas behind the reflected shock wave in shock tube, corresponding to the reservoir temperature of a shock tunnel, based on the chemical reaction of small amount of CF₄ premixed in the test gas. The final product C₂F₄ is used as the temperature indicator, which is sampled and detected by a gas chromatography in the experiment. The detected concentration of C₂F₄ is correlated to the temperature of the reflected shock wave with the initial pressureP ₁ and test time τ as parameters in the temperature range 3 300 K<T<5 600 K, pressure range 5 kPa<P ₁<12 kPa and τ≅0.4 ms. The project supported by the China Aerodynamics Project for Basic Researches (J13.5.2 ZK04)     

Improvement of measurement accuracy in micro PIV by image overlapping

Micro PIV uses volume illumination; therefore, the velocity measured at the focal plane is a weighted average of the velocities within the measurement volume. The contribution of out-of-focus particles to the PIV correlation can generate significant measurement errors particularly in near wall regions. We present a new application of image overlapping, which is shown to be very effective in improving the accuracy of time-averaged velocity measurements by effectively reducing the measurement depth. The performance of image overlapping and correlation averaging were studied using synthetic and experimental images of micro channel flow, both with and without image pre-processing. The results show that for flows without particle clumping, image overlapping provides the best measurement accuracy without any need for image pre-processing. For flows with particle clumping, image overlapping combined with band-pass filtering provides the best measurement accuracy. When overlapped images are saturated with particles due to a large number of image pairs, image overlapping measurement still does not show any visible pixel-locking effect. Image overlapping was found to have comparable or slightly reduced pixel-locking effects compared to correlation averaging. In addition, image overlapping utilizes significantly fewer computational resources than the other techniques.     

Combining 2D synchrosqueezed wave packet transform with optimization for crystal image analysis

We develop a variational optimization method for crystal analysis in atomic resolution images, which uses information from a 2D synchrosqueezed transform (SST) as input. The synchrosqueezed transform is applied to extract initial information from atomic crystal images: crystal defects, rotations and the gradient of elastic deformation. The deformation gradient estimate is then improved outside the identified defect region via a variational approach, to obtain more robust results agreeing better with the physical constraints. The variational model is optimized by a nonlinear projected conjugate gradient method. Both examples of images from computer simulations and imaging experiments are analyzed, with results demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Surface acoustic wave MEMS gyroscope

The design and performance evaluation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) MEMS gyroscope is presented in this paper. This gyroscope is an integration of a SAW resonator and a SAW sensor. The SAW resonator is used to setup a stable reference vibration and SAW sensor is used for the detection of the secondary SAW generated by the Coriolis force. Further to this resonator, strategically positioned metallic dots that form an array along the standing wave anti-node locations are subjected to the reference vibratory motion. These vibrating dot arrays through the Coriolis effect will generate secondary SAW, which is picked up by the SAW sensor. The SAW resonator is designed and optimized using coupling-of-modes (COM) theory. In view of its one-layer planar configuration, this gyroscope can be implemented easily for applications requiring conformal mounting onto a surface of interest. This SAW gyroscope can be competitively priced inherently rugged, reliable and very sensitive. It is also capable of being wirelessly interrogated, without any sensor power source.     

An automated simultaneous measurement of thickness and wave velocity by ultrasound

The measurement of wave velocity in a sample requires an accurate determination of the sample thickness at the points of interrogation. The theory of an automated technique is presented. In its application, the thickness of the sample is first calculated by the knowledge of the wave velocity in the immersion fluid. This thickness is then used to calculate the wave velocity in the sample. The results of the application of the technique to isotropic and anisotropic materials are presented.     

The measurement of square channel velocity profiles using a microcomputer-based image analysis system

A technique was developed to perform automated velocity measurements from a sequence of particle images. A very thin sheet of laser light allows determination of essentially two-dimensional velocity profiles in very small conduits. A four image sequence was captured by a microcomputer-based frame grabber. After thresholding to eliminate particles not perfectly centered in the sheet of light, the sequence of pseudo-colored images of a given particle is used to determine its velocity. By measuring several two-dimensional velocity profiles across a square channel, the complete three-dimensional velocity profile was assembled. The experimentally measured velocity profile agrees closely with the known theoretical velocity profile for flow in a square channel.     

3-Component acceleration field measurement by dual-time stereoscopic particle image velocimetry

In this article, a multiplane stereo-particle image velocimetry (PIV) system was implemented and validated to measure the three-component acceleration field in a plane of turbulent flows. The employed technique relies on the use of two stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV) systems to measure pairs of velocity fields superimposed in space but shifted in time. The time delay between the two velocity fields enables the implementation of a finite difference scheme to compute temporal derivatives. The use of two synchronized SPIV systems allows us to overcome the limited acquisition rate of PIV systems when dealing with highly turbulent flows. Moreover, a methodology based on the analysis of the spectral error distribution is described here to determine the optimal time delay to compute time derivatives. The present dual-time SPIV arrangement and the proposed analysis method are applied to measure three-component acceleration fields in a cross section of a subsonic plane turbulent mixing layer.     

Surface deformation measurements of a cylindrical specimen by digital image correlation

Planar digital image correlation has been extended to measure surface deformations of cylindrical specimens without physical contact for high-temperature situations. A single CCD camera acquires the surface image patterns of a section of a specimen in the undeformed and deformed states to determine two-dimensional displacements on a projection plane. Axial, circumferential and shear deformations are determined through curvature transformation on the two-dimensional projection displacement field. The resolution of this technique was determined for a cylinder of 22.23-mm diameter to be 3.5 μm for the axial displacement, 0.05 percent for the axial and shear strains and 0.08 percent for the circumferential strain when correlation computations are carried out over a field of 5 mm×5 mm.     

Measurement of surface profile using digital image correlation

Presented in this paper is the development of a system for measuring surface profile using digital image correlation. All needed equations for camera calibration and system profile measurements are shown. Equations included needed transformation to account for subset perspective distortions. The system is capable of an accuracy of 1/20,000 of the camera-to-object distance. Experimental results are shown for several cases, with results giving a maximum error of 0.05 mm with camera-to-object distance of 1000 mm.     

Schlieren measurement of axisymmetric internal wave amplitudes

"Synthetic schlieren", which has been used to measure the amplitude of two-dimensional internal wave beams generated from an oscillating cylinder, is adapted to analyze axisymmetric internal waves generated by an oscillating sphere. This nonintrusive technique uses elementary inverse tomographic methods to measure the amplitude of the conical-structured wave beams everywhere in space and time. We compare the results with in situ probe measurements, and we examine the structure of the wave beams generated by a sphere oscillating at different amplitudes.     

Numerical simulation of thermal boundary layer profile measurement

Heat transfer rates from a surface can be determined from the slope of the temperature profile measured with a thermocouple wire traversing within a boundary layer. However, accuracy of such measurement can suffer due to flow distortion and conduction through the thermocouple wire. The present numerical study consists of two parts—a 2D simulation of flow distortion due to a cylinder in cross flow near a solid wall and a 3D simulation defined as a fin problem to calculate the thermal profile measurement error due to conduction through the thermocouple wires. Results show that the measured temperature is lower than the true temperature resulting in a 5% under-prediction of local heat transfer coefficient. A parametric study shows that low thermal conductivity thermocouple (E type) with a small wire diameter (76 micron) is desirable to reduce the measurement error in local Nusselt number.