Imaging flow velocity measurements are essential for the investigation of unsteady complex flow phenomena, e.g., in turbomachines, injectors and combustors. The direct optical measurement on fluid molecules is possible with laser Rayleigh scattering and the Doppler effect. However, the small scattering cross-section results in a low signal to noise ratio, which hinders time-resolved measurement...

A new measurement technique is being developed by NASA to measure off-surface flow fields. This method, Doppler global velocimetry, will allow quantification of complex three-dimensional flow fields at video camera rates. The entire flow field structure within a selected plane is measured simultaneously rather than by scanned, point-by-point measurements using conventional laser velocimetry. To...

This research aims to measure four-dimensional, spatio-temporal velocity fields in unsteady periodic flows, such as those around rotorcraft. Periodic planar velocity fields at several slices of the flowfield are used to compute the component normal to the planes. The flow being incompressible, satisfying the continuity equation is sufficient. The velocity field reconstruction technique is valid...

We report on the dynamics and structure of the turbulent velocity field in a high-Rayleigh-number (Ra = 5.9 x 10(8))thermal convection cell with an aspect ratio of 4. Spectral density functions (measured with laser Doppler velocimetry) indicated the existence of a large-scale periodic component. The long-time mean flow field (measured with particle image velocimetry) revealed that the large-sca...

We suggest an approach to probing intermittency corrections to the Kolmogorov law in turbulent flows based on the autoregressive moving-average modeling of turbulent time series. We introduce an index Υ that measures the distance from a Kolmogorov-Obukhov model in the autoregressive moving-average model space. Applying our analysis to particle image velocimetry and laser Doppler velocimetry mea...

ABSTRACT This paper reports a new method for measurement of periodic flows with phase-sampling technique by using conventional micro particle image velocimetry (PIV). Non-integer multiples for the laser pulse frequency and the frequency of the periodic flow are chosen such that each velocimetry data set represents a unique point in phase for the periodic flow. The method we proposed does not re...