Quantitative flow visualization of a turboprop aircraft by robotic volumetric velocimetry

The flow field around a turboprop aircraft scaled model is investigated with attention to the propeller slipstream and the wing near wake. The experiments are conducted in the Low-Speed Tunnel (LST) of the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) as part of a collaboration among DNW, Delft University of Technology and Airbus. Quantitative flow...

On the use of full particle trajectories and vorticity transport for dense velocity field reconstruction

A procedure is proposed to reconstruct the instantaneous velocity field from full particle trajectories in a data assimilation framework that includes the vorticity transport equation. The technique is christened as time-segment assimilation (TSA). The work addresses the common problem of low seeding concentration in 3D experiments, usually...

Instantaneous Flow Reconstruction from Particle Trajectories with Vortex-in-Cell

The manuscripts presents the working principle of a novel technique to interpolate sparse and scattered particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) measurements onto a dense grid, by using the velocity measurements along a full particle trajectory. The method performs iteratively a vortex-in-cell simulation (Schneiders et al. 2014 in Exp Fluids 55:1692)...

On the resolved scales in a turbulent boundary layer by tomographic PIV and PTV aided by VIC

Pouring time into space

A method is proposed to reconstruct instantaneous velocity from time-resolved tomographic PTV, employing both instantaneous velocity and velocity material derivative. This improves upon current techniques by not only including penalization of velocity divergence, but also requiring consistency with the temporal derivative of the PTV particle...

Large-volume pressure from tomographic PTV in a surface mounted cylinder near-wake using HFSB tracers