Pulsatile Flows: Experimental Investigation of fully turbulent pulsatile pipe flows

Turbulence is a commonly encountered state of fluid dynamics. Unsteady turbulent flows in pipes are present in many engineering applications and also in biological flows. However, the various processes active in such flows are not well understood. The present work employs stereo-PIV to investigate the effects of a sinusoidal pressure gradient on...

Controlled ring vortex injection into a turbulent pipe flow

In this thesis a vortex generator is presented, that can generate controlled ring-vortex injections into a pipe flow. The performance of the generator and the coherence of its structures is tested by applying a dye visualisation method. Furthermore, iso-contour plots of the 3D velocity field, obtained from Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry...