Time-average measurement of velocity, density, temperature, and turbulence velocity fluctuations using Rayleigh and Mie scattering

Measurement of time-averaged velocity, density, temperature, and turbulence velocity fluctuations in sparsely seeded gas flows using a non-intrusive, point-wise technique based on Rayleigh and Mie scattering is discussed. A Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) is used to spectrally resolve laser light scattered by molecules and particulates in gas flows. The spectral content of the scattered light provides information about velocity, density, and temperature of the gas. A CCD camera is used to record images of the fringes formed by scattered light passing through the interferometer. Models of the spectral components are used in a least squares fitting routine to estimate the parameters from fringe images. Flow measurements are presented for subsonic and supersonic jet flows. The application range for this technique is mostly for high velocity situations (>25 m/s). Velocity, density, temperature, and turbulence velocity fluctuations were determined with accuracies within 5 m/s, 4%, 2%, and 5 m/s, respectively.     

Analysis and synthesis of a moire photo-optical system

an analysis based on the modulation-transfer function (MTF) is made of the photo-optical systems used to produce and record moiré fringe patterns. The low-pass filtering capabilities of a real lens and film are demonstrated. The influence of this filtering action on the largest strain that can be measured for a given amount of initial mismatch is discussed. Simple techniques of optical low-pass filtering are presented that increase the quality of moiré patterns that are to be processed automatically.     

Particle Velocimetry and Photoelasticity Applied to the Study of Dynamic Sliding Along Frictionally-Held Bimaterial Interfaces: Techniques and Feasibility

A laser interferometry-based technique was developed to locally measure the in-plane components of particle velocity in dynamic experiments. This technique was applied in the experimental investigation of dynamic sliding along the incoherent (frictional) interface of a Homalite–steel bimaterial structure. The bimaterial specimen was subjected to uniform compressive stress and impact-induced shear loading. The evolution of the dynamic stress field was recorded by high-speed photography in conjunction with dynamic photoelasticity. The combination of the full-field technique of photoelasticity with the local technique of velocimetry was proven to be a very powerful tool in the investigation of dynamic sliding. A relatively broad loading wave with an eye-like structure emanated from the interface. The particle velocity measurements established that sliding started behind the eye-like fringe pattern. It propagated with supershear speed with respect to Homalite. A shear Mach line originating from the sliding tip is visible in the photoelastic images. A vertical particle velocity measurement revealed the existence of a wrinkle-like pulse traveling along the bimaterial interface. The wrinkle-like pulse followed the initial shear rupture tip and propagated at a specific subshear speed.     

Digital direct analysis of a multiexposed photograph in PIV

In Particle Image Velocimetry the analysis of the multi-exposed photographic plate can be carried out either by means of the Young's fringe analysis or by a direct technique. With this second approach the image of each interrogation area, enlarged by a microscope, is recorded by means of a digital image acquisition system. After some preliminary filtering operations the digitized image can be analyzed with numerical tools. In this paper a review of the digital techniques used in the analysis of these images is carried out. Both twodimensional and onedimensional techniques are analyzed and the problems involved in their use are discussed.     

利用具有相位跳跃技术的阴影摩尔图测量电子组装元件的热翘曲

Phase-stepping technique is applied to the analysis of fringe patterns of shadow moiré of electronic packages. Sensitivity of the fringe pattern analysis is demonstrated to be significantly increased. Thermally induced warpage of electronic packages is successfully measured in real-time as the sample is driven through a simulated reflow process. The paper discusses the technique of phase stepping, noise filtering and its application to the shadow moiré method. Applications of the technology are presented.     

利用具有相位跳跃技术的阴影摩尔图测量电子组装元件的热翘曲

Phase-stepping technique is applied to the analysis of fringe patterns of shadow moiré of electronic packages.Sensitivity of the fringe pattern analysis is demonstrated to be significantly increased.Thermally induced warpage of electronic packages is successfully measured in real-time as the sample is driven through a simulated reflow process.The paper discusses the technique of phase stepping,noise filtering and its application to the shadow moiré method.Applications of the technology are presented.     

Direct measurement of local instantaneous laminar burning velocity by a new PIV algorithm

This paper presents a new experimental approach using PIV technique to measure the local instantaneous laminar burning velocity of a stretched premixed flame. Up to now, from experimental techniques, this physical property was only accessible in average and the instantaneous interactions of flame with flow structures, mixture variations and walls could not be considered. In the present work, the local burning velocity is measured as the difference between the local flame speed and the local fresh gas velocity at the entrance of the flame zone. Two original methods are proposed to deduce these quantities from pair of particle images. The local flame speed is measured from the distance between two successive flame positions. For the flame localization, a new extraction tool combined with a filtering technique is proposed to access to the flame front coordinates with sub-pixel accuracy. The local fresh gas velocity near the flame front is extracted from the maximum of the normal velocity profile, located within 1 mm ahead of the flame front. To achieve the required spatial resolution, a new algorithm based on adaptive interrogation window scheme has been developed by taking into account the flow and flame front topologies. The accuracy and reliability of our developments have been evaluated from two complementary approaches based, respectively, on synthetic images of particle and on the well-established configuration of outwardly propagating spherical flames. In the last part of the paper, an illustration of the potentials of our new approach is shown in the case of a laminar flame propagating through a stratified mixture.     

基于多通道滤波技术的散斑条纹图正则化方法

在光测力学中,条纹图正则化是进一步提取条纹位相信息的重要基础。对于散斑条纹图来说,正则化的过程还需能够有效地抑制散斑噪声。本文提出一种基于多通道滤波技术的散斑条纹图正则化方法。通过使用多个Gabor滤波通道对散斑条纹图进行滤波,并且引入与条纹对比度有关的权重因子把各个滤波通道的滤波结果叠加起来,最终得到滤除了散斑噪声的正则化条纹图。数值模拟和实验结果表明,该方法在将散斑条纹图正则化的同时能够有效地滤除条纹图中的散斑噪声,为进一步提取条纹位相奠定了良好的基础。     

Doppler picture velocimetry applied to hypersonics: automated DPV fringe pattern analysis using the FFT method

Doppler picture velocimetry (DPV) is a tool for visualizing and measuring the flow velocity distribution of tracer particles in a laser light sheet. A frequency sensitive Michelson interferometer, tuned for detecting the velocity distribution by the Doppler effect, visualizes the velocity information of tracer particles crossing an illuminating laser light sheet as interference fringe patterns. Many efforts have been done to evaluate best these DPV patterns, in order to obtain the frequency distribution and, by applying the Doppler formula, the velocity profile of the tracers. The first processing method, developed in 1982, relied on manual processing of the pictures by the user, due to the unavailability of suitable high performance picture processing algorithms. This drawback made DPV being considered as a rather time-consuming measurement technique with limited accuracy, compared to existing commercial velocity measurement systems (e.g. PIV). This is no more the state of the art: The new DPV analysis software, presented in this paper, allows automated processing of the interference fringe samples obtained by two images, a reference picture without frequency shift and a Doppler picture containing the frequency shift, using single beam velocimetry. Based on Fast Fourier transformation (FFT), the presented algorithm determines the corresponding velocity profile (in pseudo colours) within only a few seconds on a standard personal computer without user intervention.     

混合光载波法分离动静态主应力

本文将等差载波位相调制原理与夹层全息术结合形成的混合光载波法,可同时获得等差载波条纹图与混合载波条纹图.对混合载波纹图进行光学付里叶变换,利用空间滤波技术可将等和载波条纹从中分离出来.利用图象处理技术实现了对两种载波条纹图从预处理到应力计算的自动化处理.将混合光载波法应用于动态全息光弹性,分离了动态主应力. 文中还提出了一个经济实用的大尺寸载波片制作技术.     

Simultaneous concentration and velocity field measurements in a shock-accelerated mixing layer

A novel technique to obtain simultaneous velocity and concentration measurements is applied to the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability. After acceleration by a Mach 2.2 shock wave, the interface between the two gases develops into a turbulent mixing layer. A time-separated pair of acetone planar laser-induced fluorescence images are processed to yield concentration and, through application of the Advection-Corrected Correlation Image Velocimetry technique, velocity fields. This is the first application of this technique to shock-accelerated flows. We show that when applied to numerical simulations, this technique reproduces the velocity field to a similar quality as particle image velocimetry. When applied to the turbulent mixing layer of the experiments, information about the Reynolds number and anisotropy of the flow is obtained.     

Global Doppler frequency shift detection with near-resonant interferometry

The recent development in measuring 2D Doppler shift distributions for flow velocimetry using the dispersive properties of atomic line filters is presented. On the basis of velocity field measurements on a subsonic jet flow and a tip vortex flow in a medium-sized wind tunnel, the technique was assessed. Atomic line filters near a resonant transition combine imaging capabilities with a sharp frequency cutoff and an associated region of strong anomalous dispersion. While conventional Doppler global velocimetry relies on the absorption of the filter to convert frequency shifts to intensity variations, near-resonant interferometry uses its dispersion to detect frequency shifts as phase changes in an interference pattern. In the present setup, an iodine vapor cell in an imaging Michelson interferometer is used. With the illuminating laser frequency tuned near a resonant transition, the cell’s dispersion converts the frequency content of the field of view into a distortion of the carrier-fringe pattern recorded at the image plane of the interferometer. The phase distribution in the fringe images is reconstructed by filtering the individual images with a 2D Gabor filter pair tuned to the spatial frequencies of the basic carrier-fringe pattern. The post-processing is concluded with subsequent phase-unwrapping and subtraction of the carrier reference fringe phase. The method and the setup were demonstrated and calibrated experimentally on a rotating disc. The capability of the technique to operate in a real experimental environment was validated in a free subsonic jet and a tip vortex flow behind a wing section in a medium-sized wind tunnel facility. The measurements were found to be in generally good agreement with the theoretically predicted system characteristics and the reference measurements. As with other Doppler global techniques, the stability of the pulsed laser system and the secondary scattering in the test volume were identified as the main error sources.     

Computer-aided discrimination of slow and fast tracer paths

An optical method for the discrimination between slow and fast tracer particles convected within a flow is proposed. It is based on the dependence of the brightness of a trace on the velocity of the corresponding tracer. The images of the traces are captured by a CCD-camera and processed on-line. A practical application of this technique to the visualization of the low velocity streamlines in a rotating duct is presented. The possibilities to develop this technique into a quantitative tool for velocity measurements is discussed.     

基于小波分析的条纹图滤波方法

本文提出了一种新颖的干涉条纹图非线性滤波方法,可以选择性地在频域图像的不同区域选用不同的滤波方式,在滤掉图像中大部分散斑噪声的同时,能够减少信息的损失,使图像的内部边界仍然保持清晰。文中首先简介了正交小波变换的原理,然后介绍了去除散斑噪声的具体算法,最后给出了计算机模拟去噪声的结果     

光载波条纹图的锁相处理

本文提出了光载波条纹图的锁相处理方法,以对光载波条纹图作精确定位。给出了适合于计算机处理的离散递归实现步骤。在非线性模型下对定位精确度作了详细分析。实验结果表明,当暂态影响衰减后,能对条纹图进行精确定位而无稳态误差,对断裂条纹的大范围补偿也取得了较好的效果。     

Application of the moiré method for use with cylindrical surfaces

The paper describes how the Moiré reflective technique can be used to determine transverse-bending moments in a cylindrical shell. A cylindrical screen is used and the pattern of lines on it is reflected in the shell which acts as a lens and reduces the apparent pitch. When a photograph of the unloaded shell is considered, the lines on the negative are found to vary only slightly in width so that within the limits of movement of the ray reflected from the shell the pitch can be considered uniform. Loading the shell alters its radius and this alters the pitch of the lines as they appear on the photographic plate. It is shown that this change in line width does not affect the fringe pattern. Since the length of the reflected ray increases at distances away from the center of the photograph, a correction has to be applied to fringes at these points to obtain the correct change of slope. Photographs of the fringe pattern are obtained for various angular positions round the shell and, from these photographs, graphs of fringe against position round the shell are plotted. After correction, the slope of these graphs allows the bending moment at a point to be calculated. It is noted that transverse and radial deflections can influence the fringe pattern and this is allowed for. By taking photographs of the unloaded shell and measuring the widths of lines on the negative, the radius of the shell can be calculated and compared with spherometer readings. Knowing the bending moment at a point, the change in radius is calculated and the calculated final radius compared with that obtained from measurements on the separate photograph of the loaded shell. Finally, the deflections on the transverse center line are calculated from the fringe patterns and compared with deflection-gage readings.     

Simultaneous planar measurement of droplet velocity and size with gas phase velocities in a spray by combined ILIDS and PIV techniques

A new approach for simultaneous planar measurement of droplet velocity and size with gas phase velocities is reported, which combines the out-of-focus imaging technique ‘Interferometric Laser Imaging Droplet Sizing’ (ILIDS) for planar simultaneous droplet size and velocity measurements with the in-focus technique ‘Particle Image Velocimetry’ (PIV) for gas velocity measurements in the vicinity of individual droplets. Discrimination between the gas phase seeding and the droplets is achieved in the PIV images by removing the glare points of focused droplet images, using the droplet position obtained through ILIDS processing. Combination of the two optical arrangements can result in a discrepancy in the location of the centre of a droplet, when imaging through ILIDS and PIV techniques, of up to about 1 mm, which may lead to erroneous identification of the glare points from droplets on the PIV images. The magnitude of the discrepancy is a function of position of the droplet’s image on the CCD array and the degree of defocus, but almost independent of droplet size. Specifically, it varies approximately linearly across the image along the direction corresponding to the direction of propagation of the laser sheet for a given defocus setting in ILIDS. The experimental finding is supported by a theoretical analysis, which was based on geometrical optics for a simple optical configuration that replicates the essential features of the optical system. The discrepancy in the location was measured using a monodisperse droplet generator, and this was subtracted from the droplet centres identified in the ILIDS images of a polydisperse spray without ‘seeding’ particles. This reduced the discrepancy between PIV and ILIDS droplet centres from about 1 mm to about 0.1 mm and hence increased the probability of finding the corresponding fringe patterns on the ILIDS image and glare points on the PIV image. In conclusion, it is shown that the proposed combined method can discriminate between droplets and ‘seeding’ particles and is capable of two-phase measurements in polydisperse sprays.     

Deflection Measurement and Determination of Young’s Modulus of Micro-cantilever Using Phase-shift Shadow Moiré Method

The deflection of micro-structures have been previously measured using optical interferometry methods. In this study, the classical phase-shift shadow moiré method (PSSM) was applied to measure the deflection of a silicon micro-cantilever and to determine the Young’s modulus of the cantilever material. The modulus value was determined from the profile based on deflection equation. A normal white light source and a grating of 40 line pairs per mm were used to generate the moiré fringes. Since the use of white light and high-resolution grating produces low contrast moiré fringes, the fringe visibility was enhanced by applying contrast enhancement and filtering techniques. The Young’s modulus of the silicon cantilever material was estimated to be 165.9 GPa with an uncertainty of ±11.3 GPa (6.8%). The experimental results show that the PSSM method can be successfully applied for characterizing micro-cantilevers. Comparison of the deflection profile from the proposed method and a commercial 3-D optical profiler showed that the measurement range and sensitivity of PSSM are not affected by the poor contrast images.     

区域密度滤波及其在数字散斑条纹处理中的应用

利用统计学原理对数字错位散斑条纹的形成进行了系统分析，并针对散斑条纹图所特有颗粒性强的特点，提出一种新的空域滤波方法－区域密度滤波。该方法能更有效地抑制散斑图中的高频噪声，也使条纹图更平滑，并且细节得到了最大程度的保存，避免了有些空域滤波法因误差积累而导致条纹移动的问题，进一步保证了相移技术和神经网络系统的计算精度。     

VISAR测速中的信号丢失及丢失条纹数的确定

论述了ＶＩＳＡＲ测速中信号频率与被测速度增量的关系和光电倍增管、数字示波器所能响应的最高速度增量。分析了信号丢失的原因,给出了丢失条纹数的确定方法。最后对ＶＩＳＡＲ应用中如何正确选择条纹常数提出了建议。