Simultaneous planar measurement of droplet velocity and size with gas phase velocities in a spray by combined ILIDS and PIV techniques |
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Authors: | Yannis Hardalupas Srikrishna Sahu Alex M K P Taylor Konstantinos Zarogoulidis |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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