On Reynolds Number Dependence of Micro-ramp-Induced Transition

The transitional flow features past a micro-ramp are investigated in the incompressible flow regime at critical and supercritical roughness-height based Reynolds number (Reh). Tomographic PIV is adopted as the diagnostic technique to identify the instantaneous three-dimensional flow behaviour in the domain of 73 ramp height streamwise. The...

Low-frequency wake instability of an axisymmetric bluff body in pitch

The backflow instability in the wake past a cylindrical blunt-based body in pitch is investigated at a Reynolds number ReD = 6.7 · 104 based on the cylinder diameter. Time-resolved stereoscopic particle image velocimetry measurements have been performed in a cross-flow plane located 0.3 D downstream of the model base. An increasing displacement...

Very-low frequency wake dynamics of an axisymmetric body

The so-called very-low-frequency (VLF) azimuthal meandering of the reversed-flow region has been shown to contribute significantly to the unsteadiness of the turbulent wake flow past a bluff body of revolution (Rigas et al. 2014; Grandemange et al. 2014). Such an erratic behavior causes a continuous change in the wake topology and, particularly...

Geometry effect of isolated roughness on boundary layer transition investigated by tomographic PIV

Boundary layer transition over isolated roughness elements is investigated in the incompressible flow regime using tomographic PIV. Four different geometries (cylinder, square, hemisphere and micro-ramp) are considered maintaining constant height and span of the element. The main target is to compare the different flow topologies and study the...

Evaluation of aerodynamic drag of a full-scale cyclist model by large-scale tomographic-PIV

Experiments are conducted to determine the drag of a full-scale cyclist model in a wind tunnel at 4 m/s. The aerodynamic drag is evaluated from tomo-PIV measurements in the wake of the model applying the conservation of momentum within a control volume. The measurements are conducted in a thin volume of 100 x 170 x 3 cubic centimeters using...

Dense velocity reconstruction from tomographic PTV with material derivatives

A method is proposed to reconstruct the instantaneous velocity field from time-resolved volumetric particle tracking velocimetry (PTV, e.g., 3D-PTV, tomographic PTV and Shake-the-Box), employing both the instantaneous velocity and the velocity material derivative of the sparse tracer particles. The constraint to the measured temporal derivative...

Low-frequency behavior of the turbulent axisymmetric near-wake

The turbulent wake past an axisymmetric body is investigated with time-resolved stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) at a Reynolds number ReD = 6.7 × 104 based on the object diameter. The azimuthal organization of the near-wake is studied at different locations downstream of the trailing edge. The time-averaged velocity field features a...

Large-scale volumetric pressure from tomographic PTV with HFSB tracers

The instantaneous volumetric pressure in the near-wake of a truncated cylinder is measured by use of tomographic particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) using helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSB) as tracers. The measurement volume is several orders of magnitude larger than that reported in tomographic experiments dealing with pressure from particle...

Flow topology and acoustic emissions of trailing edge serrations at incidence

The flow past a NACA 0018 airfoil with sawtooth trailing edge serrations has been investigated using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV). The serration flap angle and airfoil incidence are varied in order to study the effect of secondary flow establishing between the suction and pressure sides of the serrations. The flow topology...

Drag Analysis from PIV Data in Speed Sports

Aerodynamic drag is computed from velocity measurements obtained with particle image velocimetry (PIV). This allows determining the drag force in combination with the visualization of the flow structures responsible for drag generation. Two experiments are conducted to illustrate the working principle of the approach, which is meant for...

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

A seeding system for large-scale Tomographic PIV in aerodynamics

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...