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EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS
Volume 55, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-014-1857-7
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I005897/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I005897/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A hybrid technique is presented that combines scanning PIV with tomographic reconstruction to make spatially and temporally resolved measurements of the fine-scale motions in turbulent flows. The technique uses one or two high-speed cameras to record particle images as a laser sheet is rapidly traversed across a measurement volume. This is combined with a fast method for tomographic reconstruction of the particle field for use in conjunction with PIV cross-correlation. The method was tested numerically using DNS data and with experiments in a large mixing tank that produces axisymmetric homogeneous turbulence at R-lambda similar or equal to 219. A parametric investigation identifies the important parameters for a scanning PIV setup and provides guidance to the interested experimentalist in achieving the best accuracy. Optimal sheet spacings and thicknesses are reported, and it was found that accurate results could be obtained at quite low scanning speeds. The two-camera method is the most robust to noise, permitting accurate measurements of the velocity gradients and direct determination of the dissipation rate.
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