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Tziaros, Filotas (author)The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is emergent throughout every industrial sector worldwide. For aviation, this has opened a market gap for small scale electric aircraft configurations (e-V/STOL). These configurations are very diverse and they are classified based on how lift is obtained. However, their flight...master thesis 2023
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Spoelstra, A.M.C.M.G. (author)The research presented in this thesis introduces a new measurement concept for on-site aerodynamic measurements based on large-scale stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (stereo-PIV) measurements past an athlete, a vehicle or an object travelling through a quiescent environment. The analysis of the momentumdeficit past the transit poses the...doctoral thesis 2022
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Engler Faleiros, D. (author)Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) relies upon the introduction of particle tracers that scatter sufficient light and follow the flow accurately. The use of submillimetre helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSB) as flow tracers for PIV is investigated for the purpose of enabling velocity measurements in large-scale industrial wind tunnels. That soap...doctoral thesis 2021
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Scarano, F. (author), Jux, C. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author)The present work reviews the recent developments in the domain of particle image velocimetry (PIV) with attention to its use for large-scale problems of interest for industrial aerodynamics. The article introduces the fundamental principles of flow seeding for large-scale experiments based on the helium-filled soap bubble (HFSB) technique....journal article 2021
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Spoelstra, A.M.C.M.G. (author), Hirsch, Maximilian (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author), Scarano, F. (author)The Ring of Fire (RoF) measurement concept to perform on-site experiments of aerodynamic drag for transiting objects is investigated with a study that identifies the main sources of uncertainty. The main contributors to the uncertainty of the drag measurement are examined for the case of a cyclist riding through the measurement domain. A...journal article 2020
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Allandrieu, Rémi (author)Fluid structure interactions are present everywhere, and are of crucial importance in the development of new concepts in the aerospace industry. Their study through numerical approaches such as CFD are of great interest for this sector, and understanding how to control them is key to the evolution of the industry. In this work, we present an...master thesis 2018
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Del Estal Herrero, A. (author), Perçin, M. (author), Karasek, M. (author), van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)Flow visualizations have been performed on a free flying, flapping-wing micro air vehicle (MAV), using a large-scale particle image velocimetry (PIV) approach. The PIV method involves the use of helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSB) as tracer particles. HFSB scatter light with much higher intensity than regular seeding particles, comparable to that...journal article 2018
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Saredi, Edoardo (author)Car industry and motorsport development nowadays strongly rely on wind tunnel testing. As the literature survey shows, in order to fully understand the characteristics of the flow around a car, large-scale and volumetric flow field measurements are required. For its features, PIV can be pointed as a useful technique for automotive wind tunnels....master thesis 2018
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Sciacchitano, A. (author), Terra, W. (author), Shah, Yash (author)Large-scale Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurements are cond ucted in the wake of a fu ll-scale cyclist model in time-trial position at freestream velocities between 12.5 and 15 m/ s, corresponding to Reynolds numbers of the order of 5×105. Lagrangian particle tracking is employed to determine the velocity and static pressure statistics...conference paper 2018
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Terra, W. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author), Scarano, F. (author), van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)The accuracy of the “PIV wake rake” method to measure the drag of transiting objects is evaluated. Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry measurements are conducted on a sphere towed at different speeds, within a Reynolds number range where the drag coefficient is constant. In contrast to PIV wake rake application on steady models in wind...conference paper 2018
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Yeung, Ka Hin (author)Junction flow denotes the fluid phenomenon where the flow on a flat surface encounters a protuberance. This type of flow, which is highly three-dimensional, turbulent and unsteady, usually leads to the generation of a Horseshoe vortex at the obstacle's leading edge. Existing extensive experimental and numerical studies focus on the inception of...master thesis 2017
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Hosseini Nasab, S.M. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)The objective of this study is to discover a synergistic effect between foam stability in bulk and micro-emulsion phase behaviour to design a high-performance chemical system for an optimized alkaline–surfactant–foam (ASF) flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The focus is on the interaction of ASF chemical agents with oil in the presence...journal article 2017
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Jux, Constantin (author)Aerodynamics research and development often involves large-scale and turbulent flows; may this be a rotor flow, the wake of a car, or the flow passing a human athlete to name a few examples. Volumetric particle image velocimetry (PIV) is well suited for the study of such flows. The introduction of Helium Filled Soap Bubbles (HFSB) for wind...master thesis 2017
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Yuvaraj, R. (author)This thesis work illustrates the first of its kind solution to this problem of lack of seeding at vortex core in air flows, by the use of Helium Filled Soap Bubble (HFSB) which is a neutrally buoyant tracer particle in air flows. To analyse the lack of seeding in the vortex core, a 2D numerical simulation of particle motion in vortex flow is...master thesis 2016
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Morias, K. (author)This thesis follows a previous study on the aerodynamic characterization of helium-filled soap bubbles (HFSBs) for large-scale PIV measurements and aims at characterizing statistically the tracing fidelity of HFSBs in PIV experiments, considering the statistical distribution of the bubbles diameter, slip velocity, relaxation time and density....master thesis 2016
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Schanz, Daniel (author), Huhn, Florian (author), Gesemann, Sebastian (author), Dierksheide, Uwe (author), van de Meerendonk, R. (author), Manovski, P. (author), Schröder, A. (author)We present results from two large-volume volumetric flow experiments. The first of these, investigating a thermal plume at low velocities (up to 0.35 m/s) demonstrates the abilities and requirements to reach volume sizes up to and probably beyond one cubic meter. It is shown that the use of Helium filled soap bubbles (HFSBs) as tracers, combined...conference paper 2016
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Martina, G.M. (author)Grafica Soset, a Brazilian producer of printed materials, is a company that needs to transition to the use of digital invoices for sale of goods and services. All Brazilian companies have set deadlines per type of industry, created by the Brazilian government, to transition from the use of paper invoices to the use of invoices that exist only in...bachelor thesis 2011
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Vuik, C. (author)Dit document dient als eindrapport voor het BSc-project voor de opleiding Technische Informatica. Doel van dit project was het ontwikkelen van een desktop applicatie waarmee o.a. gemakkelijk bestanden van verschillende willekeurige webapplicaties kunnen worden gedownload, geüpload etc, bijvoorbeeld door middel van Drag&Drop. Om met de...bachelor thesis 2010
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Tolman, F. (author), Böhms, M. (author), Lima, C. (author), Van Rees, R. (author), Fleuren, J. (author), Stephens, J. (author)The IST 10303 "eConstruct" project (eCommerce/eBusiness in the Building and Construction industry: preparing for the new Internet) is now (November 2001) in its second and final year. The objective of eConstruct is to develop, evaluate and demonstrate how the next generation Internet can be used to improve meaningful communications in the...journal article 2001