Non-intrusive, imaging-based method for shock wave characterization in bubbly gas–liquid fluids

Abstract: A novel experimental imaging-based method is presented for the non-intrusive determination of shock wave characteristics (i.e. shock wave speed and magnitude, and shock-induced liquid velocity) in a bubbly flow solely from gas bubble velocities. Shock wave speeds are estimated by the relative motion between gas bubbles at two...

Dynamic response of sloshing pressure sensors

The dynamic response of pressure sensors for model tests of sloshing impacts is paramount to recording these highly dynamic events. In this study, we investigated the dynamic behavior of the new pressure sensors presented at ISOPE 2018 (Schreier and Poelma, 2018), which increased the spatial resolution of sloshing pressure measurements by a...

Local microbubble concentration by defocused volumetric shadowgraphy with a single camera

The challenge presented in this research is to determine the local volumetric bubble concentration (or void fraction) in the center of a microbubble cloud with limited optical access and without disturbing the flow. By applying defocused volumetric shadowgraphy to an aerated water column we were able to measure the characteristics of single...