Digital speckle photography and speckle tomography in heat transfer studies

The line-of-sight speckle photography of transparent media is used for quantitative measurements of the instantaneous temperature fields in 3D unsteady flows. Both electronic and photographic methods are employed for specklegram recording. The subsequent specklegram treatment uses the Young's fringes method as well as cross-correlation analysis of small interrogation areas of the recordings. Experimental data for three different heat transfer configurations are obtained and discussed. The first one is natural convection over extended vertical heated plates with forward facing steps, the second is unsteady 3D convective flow around a suddenly heated vertical thin wire, and the third one is a convective plume above a multi-jet flame. Both local and global Nusselt numbers are determined via measuring local surface temperature gradients for these convective flows. The results are compared with Ostrach's theory for a single vertical plate and with the data obtained by Mach–Zehnder interferometry. The 3D temperature fields are reconstructed for axisymmetric convective flows around a suddenly heated vertical wire using quasi-double projection measurement and the Radon inversion. 3D temperature distributions above the combustion zone are reconstructed using multi-projection speckle photography measurements and computerised tomography.     

A Penalization Approach for Tomographic Reconstruction of Binary Axially Symmetric Objects

We propose a variational method for tomographic reconstruction of blurred and noised binary images based on a penalization process of a minimization problem settled in the space of bounded variation functions. We prove existence and/or uniqueness results and derive a penalized optimality system. Numerical simulations are provided to demonstrate the relevance of the approach.     

电阻层析成像技术在两相流测量中的应用

过程层析成像技术能实时提供封闭管道、容器等过程设备内物场运动状态的二／三维测量信息,它为解决两相流参数的检测问题提供一种新的途径。本文以基于电学敏感原理的电阻层析成像技术为测量手段,实现在多相流实验装置上对气／水、油／水两相流二维／三维时空分布信息的实际测量;介绍了基于测量数据特性分析的在线流型识别技术和相含率的估计方法,应用现代数据处理和模式识别技术进行数据融合与提取,实现两相管流流型识别和分相含率的估计;通过开展相关测量的研究,初步实现两相流中离散相流量的测量。     

辐射源旋转台阶成像技术

 提出了用旋转台阶对辐射源成像的方法。对台阶响应曲线微分可得到辐射源2维出射强度沿台阶方向的1个投影,通过旋转台阶体,可得到完整的正弦图,从而可用层析重建算法重建出辐射源区的强度分布。用钨合金台阶体在1个60Co源上进行成像实验,从400个角度的台阶响应数据重建出60Co源活性区图像,表明该方法是可行的。此方法可推广到大孔径圆孔台阶体,用于测量X射线焦点等小尺寸辐射源的尺寸。     

Tomographic reconstruction of two-dimensional radiated power distribution during impurity injection in KSTAR plasmas using an infrared imaging video bolometer

Based on the two-dimensional radiation images obtained by an infrared imaging video bolometer (IRVB) with tangential view, the two dimensional radiation profiles of plasmas in KSTAR were reconstructed. The IRVB installed on KSTAR has a tangential view of the plasma, and thus tomographic reconstruction of the raw images of radiation profiles was performed to remove the chord-integration effect by using a tomographic reconstruction code based on the Phillips-Tikhonov algorithm. Phantom reconstruction tests with various synthetic images were carried out to validate the accuracy of the reconstruction results. It is found that hollow radiation phantoms with strong divertor radiation were reconstructed with high accuracy. Furthermore, the effects of the number of channels of the IR camera, and the number of pixels of the plasma and of the IRVB on reconstruction performance are studied with phantom tests. Two-dimensionally reconstructed images of KSTAR plasmas demonstrated that radiation loss at the plasma edge and near the divertor region increased significantly after gaseous impurity injection. The total radiated power was up to 1.2 MW at the disruption, which was 40% of the NBI power. After argon and krypton gas injection, total radiated power was increased by 325 kW and 180 kW, respectively.     

X-ray microtomography of field-induced macro-structures in a ferrofluid

X-ray microtomography is used to visualize, in-situ, the three-dimensional nature of the magnetic field induced macro-structures (>1 μm) inside a bulk (∼1 mm diameter) magnetite-particle-mineral oil ferrofluid sample. Columnar structures of ∼10 μm diameter were seen under a 0.35 kG applied magnetic field, while labyrinth type structures ∼4 μm in width were seen at 0.55 kG. The structures have height/width aspect ratios >100. The results show that the magnetite volume fraction is not constant within the structures and on average is considerably less than a random sphere packing model.     

Neurosensory tissue morphology with intraoperative optical fiber probe in aqueous medium

In this work, the author has demonstrated cross-sectional imaging of a retina of an ex vivo fish sample using a common path frequency domain optical coherence tomography at 0.8 μm range. It has been introduced that an integrated surgical hypodermic needle fiber probe can stabilize the flexible glass optical fiber and provides a close proximity to the specimen for intraoperative image guiding. In addition, the light source characteristics were matched to the common path interferometer while operating in the aqueous medium (saline solution), in order to mimic the in vivo condition, in that it shows greater bandwidth and shorter center wavelength for larger input current or output power to sustain the appropriate level of coherence reference peak by the partial reflection at the glass fiber probe interface.     

Using hydrogels in microscopy: A tutorial

Sample preparation for microscopy is a crucial step to ensure the best experimental outcome. It often requires the use of specific mounting media that have to be tailored to not just the sample but the chosen microscopy technique. The media must not damage the sample or impair the optical path, and may also have to support the correct physiological function/development of the sample. For decades, researchers have used embedding media such as hydrogels to maintain samples in place. Their ease of use and transparency has promoted them as mainstream mounting media. However, they are not as straightforward to implement as assumed. They can contain contaminants, generate forces on the sample, have complex diffusion and structural properties that are influenced by multiple factors and are generally not designed for microscopy in mind. This short review will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using hydrogels for microscopy sample preparation and highlight some of the less obvious problems associated with the area.     

Damage initiation and growth in metals. Comparison between modelling and tomography experiments

Damage in heterogeneous model materials was measured using high-resolution X-ray absorption tomography. The material consisted of an aluminium matrix containing 1% and 4% of spherical ceramic particles acting as nucleation sites for an interface decohesion mechanism of damage. The damage initiation stage was quantified using the global population of particles in the 4% material. A strain path change experiment was then applied to the 1% material. The sample was first deformed in tension in order to create elongated cavities and then compressed at 45^° to rotate and close these cavities. The results of a model based on the Rice and Tracey approach accounting for the presence of particles inside the cavities and calculating their rotation with assuming a linear hardening plastic behaviour of the matrix were compared with the observations. The model was modified to account for the damage initiation phase. It was shown to give a good global prediction of the void volume fraction provided that the physical, mechanical and morphological information are corresponding in the experimental and the model cases. The cavity rotation experiment was also shown to compare well with the calculation although only one cavity was sufficiently opened after compression to allow the comparison.     

Synchrotron X-ray 2D and 3D elemental imaging of CdSe/ZnS quantum dot nanoparticles in Daphnia magna

The potential toxicity of nanoparticles to aquatic organisms is of interest given that increased commercialization will inevitably lead to some instances of inadvertent environmental exposures. Cadmium selenide quantum dots (QDs) capped with zinc sulfide are used in the semiconductor industry and in cellular imaging. Their small size (<10 nm) suggests that they may be readily assimilated by exposed organisms. We exposed Daphnia magna to both red and green QDs and used synchrotron X-ray fluorescence to study the distribution of Zn and Se in the organism over a time period of 36 h. The QDs appeared to be confined to the gut, and there was no evidence of further assimilation into the organism. Zinc and Se fluorescence signals were highly correlated, suggesting that the QDs had not dissolved to any extent. There was no apparent difference between red or green QDs, i.e., there was no effect of QD size. 3D tomography confirmed that the QDs were exclusively in the gut area of the organism. It is possible that the QDs aggregated and were therefore too large to cross the gut wall.