Numerical simulations on the formation of laser speckles with nanofluids |
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Authors: | Ming Qian Zhonghua Shen Jian Lu Xiaowu Ni Qiang Li Yimin Xuan |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Applied Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China bSchool of Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China |
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Abstract: | Our recent work revealed that speckles can be formed when nanofluids containing a proper volume fraction of nanoparticles are illuminated by a monochromatic laser beam Qian M, Liu J, Yan M-S, Shen Z-H, Lu J, Ni XW, et al. Investigation on utilizing laser speckle velocimetry to measure the velocities of nanoparticles in nanofluids. Opt Express 2006; 14: 7559–66]. In this paper, two different physical models are established to figure out the speckle-formation mechanism. The photon–nanoparticle-collision model emphasizes the random collisions between photons and nanoparticles, and Monte Carlo method is used to simulate how the incident photons move in the vessel containing nanofluids. However, in the electric-dipole model, each illuminated nanoparticle becomes an electric dipole and sends out scattering lights, and the coherent addition of the scattering lights from nanoparticles is numerically calculated. Finally, from the numerical results, the speckle-formation mechanism is figured out. |
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Keywords: | Speckle Nanofluids Nanoparticle Numerical simulation Laser speckle velocimetry |
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