Novel processing tools for automated doppler picture veocimetry (DPV) evaluation

A unique technique, the Doppler Picture Velocimetry (DPV), for measuring and visualizing velocities especially in hypersonic gas flows is presented. By means of a Michelson interferometer (MI) the Doppler shifted light scattered by tracers is transformed into an image showing Fizeau fringes. The image fringe distribution provides information on the Doppler frequency shift which is related to the velocity of the particles crossing a light sheet plane. To overcome former disadvantages of DPV, the optical set-up as well as the processing scheme have been improved significantly. Two schemes have been tested in recent times for fringe processing: 1) an alternative process, the Least Square Estimators (LES) and 2) an algorithm based on a technique using Fast Fourier Transformations (FFT) to examine the DPV images in the frequency domain. The new DPV algorithms now allow an automated calculation of the velocity profiles from the Doppler pictures without manual fringe tracing as it had to be done in the past. Both methods are compared by means of Mach 6 flows around a wedge and a sphere produced in the ISL high energy shock tunnel STA. TiO₂ particles are illuminated by a laser light sheet which was perpendicularly arranged to the main flow direction. Light observation via the MI from the side (90° to illumination) informs on the vertically oriented velocity through the DPV images.     

Performance evaluation of an optical flow technique applied to particle image velocimetry using the VSJ Standard Images

A Dynamic Programming based Optical Flow technique has been applied to the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) problem. It has been used for the extraction of dense velocity fields in a planar section of a fluid flow illuminated by a thin laser light sheet. Two (in-plane) components of the velocity vectors can be recovered using a single camera and all three components can be recovered using two or three cameras. Quantitative performance tests have been carried out on calibrated synthetic image sequences from the PIV Standard Project of the Visualization Society of Japan (VSJ). Results are presented for the 2D flow based sequences (STD01 to STD08 Standard Images) and the 3D flow based sequences (STD301, STD302, STD331 and STD337 Standard Images). The RMS error is within the 2–3% range and within the 4–8% range for recovery of the two-component and the three-component velocity vectors respectively.     

Measurement of acoustic particle velocities in enclosed sound field: Assessment of two Laser Doppler Velocimetry measuring systems

The performances of two Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) systems adapted for measuring the acoustic particle velocities are assessed in enclosed sound field. This assessment is performed by comparing the acoustic velocities measured by means of LDV to reference acoustic velocities estimated from sound pressure measurements. The two LDV systems are based on a single optical bench which delivers an optical signal called Doppler signal. The Doppler signal, which is frequency modulated, is analyzed by means of two signal processing systems, the BSA (Burst Spectrum Analyser from Dantec) on the one hand, and a system specifically developed for the estimation of the acoustic velocity on the other hand. Once the experimental setup has been optimized for minimizing the errors made on the reference velocities, the assessment is performed and shows that both systems can measure the acoustic velocity in enclosed field in two the frequency ranges [0-4 kHz] and [0-2 kHz] respectively for acoustic velocity amplitudes of 10 mm/s and 1 mm/s.     

多光谱成像的粒子图像测速

基于时间分辨的粒子图像测速技术(time-resolved particle image velocimetry, TR-PIV)是一种广泛应用的非接触式二维瞬时流场可视化测量技术。为了得到流场精细的瞬态空间结构和演变过程,提出了一种利用多光谱成像技术来提高流场测量的时间分辨率的方法。利用多个不同波长的脉冲激光照明流场中的同一测量区域,使用多光谱成像系统采集不同波长的粒子图像,经过图像分离,判决计算产生速度矢量场。为了验证这一原理的可行性,使用三种不同波长(488,532和632.8 nm)的单色光谱脉冲搭建了一套基于多光谱成像的TR-PIV系统,通过多波长激光脉冲之间时序的精确控制,将两帧图像之间的时间间隔从10 ms缩短至3.4 ms,时间分辨率提高了3倍。结果表明基于多光谱的TR-PIV测量系统在保持PIV技术瞬时全场测量特点的同时,时间分辨率大为提高。     

Accuracy Analysis of the Fabry–Perot Etalon Based Doppler Wind Lidar

A direct detection Doppler wind lidar with the dual Fabry–Perot technique has been built in Hefei, China, and the system is described in this paper. A dual, air-spaced Fabry–Perot etalon is designed as the frequency discriminator and the transmission characteristics are measured with a stabilized cw laser and a pulse laser. The experimental data are found to be in agreement with the designed parameters. The Doppler shift is measured by taking the ratio of the transmitted intensities from the dual etalon. Analysis of the accuracy of Doppler measurement is made by considering the factors of the number of iterations in converting the measured ratio to the Doppler shift, the laser intensity fluctuation and the signal-to-noise ratio. In the sufficient signal-to-noise ratio the velocity accuracy of the Doppler lidar system is estimated to be better than 0.5 m/s.     

Versatile image-based measurements of granular flows and water wave propagation in experiments of tsunamis generated by landslides

Landslides falling into water bodies can generate destructive waves, which can be classified as tsunamis. An experimental facility to study this phenomenon has been set up. It consists of a landslide generator releasing gravel at high-speed into a wave basin. A non-intrusive system has been designed ad-hoc to be able to measure the high velocity and the geometry of the landslide as well as the generated waves characteristics. The measurement system employs the treatment of images captured by a high-speed camera which records the launched granular material illuminated by a laser sheet. A grid of laser sheets marks the basin water surface. The water has been filled by a small amount of kaolin to properly reflect the laser light at water surface. Thus, by filming with high definition cameras the perturbed water surface and successively processing the resulting images, it has been possible to measure the generated waves. The measurement framework employs a versatile camera calibration technique which allows accurate measurements in presence of: (1) high lens distortions; (2) pronounced non-parallelism condition between camera sensor and plane of measurement coincident with the laser sheet. The maximum resolution of the measurement tool is 0.01 mm, while the maximum uncertainty due to systematic error has been estimated to be 15% for the worst-case scenario. This work improves the suitability of image-based measuring systems in granular flows and free surface hydraulics experiments.     

Experimental estimation of the electric force induced by a blade-plane actuator in dielectric liquids

A blade-plane actuator immersed in a dielectric liquid and connected to a high voltage power supply produces a Coulomb force which sets the liquid in motion from the blade tip to the plane. Jets of more than 1 m/s have already been observed. In this work, a method is proposed to estimate the electric force generated by a blade plane actuator from Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) velocity field measurements. The originality of this paper comes from the fact that the volume force is not measured directly with an aerodynamic shielded balance but calculated from velocity fields obtained by Particle Image Velocimetry. In this article the global time-averaged electric force is computed in a fixed control volume by the use of the momentum equation in its integral form.     

Error due to assuming constant through-sheet velocity when applying correction for the viewing angle to particle tracking velocimetry data obtained in the wake of a model car

The common optical configuration for two-component, particle tracking studies places the light sheet such that the mean velocity vector is coplanar with the illuminated area. In other, innovative studies, it has been found advantageous to place the sheet normal to the mean flow. Using this geometry it is necessary to apply a correction to the perceived, in-plane particle displacements to allow for the systematic error due to through-sheet motion. This correction has been made in the past by assuming a constant, through-sheet velocity, necessitated by the limited two-component measurement regime. This paper describes the errors in obtaining in-plane velocity components when assuming, constant, through-sheet motion. An illustration is presented where the viewing corrections were applied to images obtained in the study of the wake of a model road vehicle using PTV in the Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) mode. Assuming a constant through-sheet velocity, it was shown that there were potentially, significant errors in the measured velocity. This was confirmed by measuring the freestream velocity at a matrix of points on the sheet then comparing the calculated in plane-motion using this variable in-plane velocity for correction. The differences in the velocity, drag and lift distributions and total induced drag and total lift using this approach were calculated and are reported in this paper.     

Particle Image Velocimetry: A new approach to fringe analysis

In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in automatic fringe analysis for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). To achieve this it is necessary to measure the wavelength and orientation of Young's-type fringes which have inherently poor signal-to-noise ratio. Current methods can be classified into two groups. In the first the fringe orientation is found so that the wavelength can be determined using 1-D algorithms, and in the second 2-D algorithms are used to measure wavelength and orientation directly. Since the signal-to-noise ratio of PIV fringes is generally poor, full automation of either technique is fraught with difficulties and some interactive control is usually required.In this paper, a new technique is reported which uses the cross-correlation function calculated from two separated lines of data in the fringe pattern. It is shown that an efficient automatic data reduction system can be realised using this approach.     

Time resolved particle image velocimetry

The temporal evolution of the velocity field of an unsteady fluid flow can be tracked by combining Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and high speed photography. Two alternative techniques for PIV are discussed: the classical light sheet technique and a method which makes use of the light scattered in forward direction. We applied time resolved PIV to investigate the flow around cavitation bubbles during their collapse near a solid boundary. The light source was an argon laser with an external acousto-optic deflector which produces series of short pulses. Using a drum camera for high speed photography, we achieved a temporal resolution of10 kHz and a spatial resolution of better than2 points/mm². Velocities could be determined without directional ambiguity in a range from2 m/s to30 m/s.     

Stereoscopic PIV measurements of a screeching supersonic jet

The effect of acoustic feed back on global flow response is illustrated through an example of a rectangular screeching jet operating at a nominal Mach number of 1.69. Using a stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry, the detailed flow characteristics within a screeching cycle are obtained with fidelity. To resolve the “bias” errors inherent with standard PIV image processing technique, a novel mesh-free and high spatial resolution scheme is implemented to yield accurate velocity measurements in a complex three-dimensional supersonic flow. The axis-switching phenomenon that arises due to unusual mixing enhancement in the minor axis plane of a rectangular jet is vividly displayed. Strong streamwise vortex structure in the jet shear layers, enhanced by the inherent instability of the shear layer, is reported.     

A visual description of the convective flow field around the head of a human

Mean velocity data obtained by PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) around the head of a real-life size breathing thermal manikin are presented for two cases of ‘no breathing’ and ‘continuous exhalation through nose’. Experiments were conducted in a special chamber which provided stationary convective flows around the seated manikin. Results are limited to the plane of symmetry. The paper aims to describe the physical structure of the turbulent flow field by presenting velocity and vorticity data in color graphics.     

Particle Image Velocimetry Applied to a Spray Jet

Experiments are described in which particle image velocimetry (PIV) is applied to the measurement of liquid droplets in a spray jet. The two velocity components in planes formed by the light sheet originating from a double-pulsed ruby laser are determined. The PIV records are evaluated with the method of Young's fringes. It is shown that this procedure allows the simultaneous measurement of the droplet size within a certain size range.     

Stereoscopic flow-tagging velocimetry

A laser-based method for measuring the three components of the velocity in a plane simultaneously and instantaneously without seed particles is presented. This is achieved by combining a laser flow-tagging technique with stereoscopic detection, in which the tagged flow is viewed from two different directions. A single CCD camera is employed for this purpose by using a new optical detection system. The flow tagging is performed by two consecutive laser pulses, i.e., “write” and “read” laser pulses. The write laser creates a grid of tracer molecules (NO) by inducing a photodissociation process. The three-dimensional motion of the tracer molecules is measured by a thick read laser sheet. Received: 22 July 1999 / Revised version: 5 August 1999 / Published online: 30 September 1999     

Even fluorescence excitation by multidirectional selective plane illumination microscopy (mSPIM)

Multidirectional selective plane illumination microscopy (mSPIM) reduces absorption and scattering artifacts and provides an evenly illuminated focal plane. mSPIM solves two common problems in light-sheet-based imaging techniques: The shadowing in the excitation path due to absorption in the specimen is eliminated by pivoting the light sheet; the spread of the light sheet by scattering in the sample is compensated by illuminating the sample consecutively from opposing directions. The resulting two images are computationally fused yielding a superior image. The effective light sheet is thinner, and the axial resolution is increased by square root 2 over single-directional SPIM. The multidirectional illumination proves essential in biological specimens such as millimeter-sized embryos. The performance of mSPIM is demonstrated by the imaging of live zebrafish embryos.     

Laser Sheet Dropsizing of dense sprays

A new technique has been developed that produces instantaneous or time-averaged two-dimensional images of Sauter Mean Diameter from a spray. Laser Sheet Dropsizing (LSD) combines elastic and inelastic light scattered from a laser sheet. Compared with Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA), the new technique offers advantages in increased spatial and temporal resolution and more rapid spray characterisation. Moreover, the technique can also be applied to dense sprays. Successful implementation requires careful calibration, particularly of the effect of dye concentration on the dropsize dependence of the inelastic scattered light.     

The K* 0(800) scalar resonance from Roy–Steiner representations of πK scattering

We discuss the existence of the light scalar meson K^* ₀(800) (also called κ) in a rigorous way, by showing the presence of a pole in the πK→πK amplitude on the second Riemann sheet. For this purpose, we study the domain of validity of two classes of Roy–Steiner representations in the complex energy plane. We prove that one of them is valid in a region sufficiently broad in the imaginary direction. From this representation, we compute the l=0 partial wave in the complex plane neither making any additional approximation nor having model dependence, relying only on experimental data. A scalar resonance with strangeness S=1 is found with the following mass and width: M_κ=658±13 MeV and Γ_κ=557±24 MeV.     

The flow velocity distribution from the doppler information on a plane in three-dimensional flow

In order to observe and estimate the flow of fluid in three-dimensional space, the pulsed Doppler method has been used widely. However, the velocity information acquired is only the velocity component in the beam direction of the wave even if an observation plane is formed by beam scanning. Accordingly, it is difficult to know the velocity distribution in the observation plane in tree-dimensional flow. In this paper, the new idea for processing the velocity distribution in the beam direction on an observation plane for transposing to flux distribution (flow function method) has been introduced. Further, the flow in an observation domain is divided into two kinds of flows, viz., the base flow which indicates the directivity of the flow in the observation domain and the vortex which is considered a two-dimensional flow. By applying the theory of a stream function to the two-dimensional flow, and by using the physical feature of a streamline to the base flow, the velocity component v which intersects perpendicularly to the beam direction is estimated. The flow velocity distribution in a scanning plane (observation plane) can be known from these two components of velocity, viz., beam direction componentu and perpendicular component to the beam directionv. The principle was explained by an example of the blood flow measurement in normal and abnormal heart chamber, by the ultrasonic Doppler method.     

Dynamics of two-phase swirling flow in a vortex chamber with a lower end swirler

The Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique and laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) were used to measure the components of tangential and axial velocities of gas and particles in a vortex chamber with a fluidized bed, particle layer dynamics was estimated qualitatively, and the flow in the vortex chamber with a centrifugal fluidized bed of solid particles was simulated numerically. It is shown that with the growth of gas velocity in the swirler slots, the rotation velocity of bed grows almost linearly, and with an increasing bed mass, the rotation velocity decreases. Data on distributions of the volume fraction of particles and gas flow velocity inside the bed were obtained by numerical calculation.     

PIV and LDA velocity measurements near walls and in the wake of a delta wing

Velocity measurements in flow regions with high turbulent intensities can be performed with high accuracy by means of optical methods. Despite the validity ranges of these methods, great care must be used in taking measurements near solid walls, where high noise levels are present due to the scattering of the light on the wall, and in flows with high vorticity regions like the ones in the wake of a finite wing. In this paper, Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA) and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) velocity measurement techniques are used in these two experimental situations and their results compared. This comparison shows that good measurements can be obtained from both techniques and that the resulting data sets do not provide alternative but rather complementary information.