Advances in Time-Resolved Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry

This thesis details advanced developments in 3-D particle image velocimetry (PIV) based on the tomographic PIV technique, with an emphasis on time-resolved experiments. Tomographic PIV is a technique introduced in 2006 to measure the flow velocity in a three-dimensional volume. When measurements are performed at a rate high enough to sample the...

Determination of instantaneous pressure in a transonic base flow using four-pulse tomographic PIV

A tomographic four-pulse PIV system is used in a transonic axisymmetric base flow experiment at a nominal free stream Mach number of 0.7, with the objective to obtain flow acceleration and pressure data. The PIV system, consisting of two double-pulse lasers and twelve cameras, allows acquiring two velocity fields with time separations as small...

An efficient and accurate approach to MTE-MART for time-resolved tomographic PIV

The motion-tracking-enhanced MART (MTE-MART; Novara et al. in Meas Sci Technol 21:035401, 2010) has demonstrated the potential to increase the accuracy of tomographic PIV by the combined use of a short sequence of non-simultaneous recordings. A clear bottleneck of the MTE-MART technique has been its computational cost. For large datasets...

The effects of swirl recovery vanes on single-rotation propeller aerodynamics and aeroacoustics

An efficient and accurate approach to MTE-MART for time-resolved tomographic PIV

The motion-tracking-enhanced MART (MTE-MART; Novara et al. in Meas Sci Technol 21:035401, 2010) has demonstrated the potential to increase the accuracy of tomographic PIV by the combined use of a short sequence of non-simultaneous recordings. A clear bottleneck of the MTE-MART technique has been its computational cost. For large datasets...

Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic effects of pylon trailing edge blowing on pusher propeller installation

Three-Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry Using a Plenoptic Camera

A novel 3-D, 3-C PIV technique is described, based on volume illumination and a plenoptic camera to measure a velocity field. The technique is based on plenoptic photography, which uses a dense microlens array mounted near a camera sensor to sample the spatial and angular distribution of light entering the camera. Various algorithms are then...