PIV Analysis of Ludwig Prandtl's Historic Flow Visualization Films
Abstract
Around 1930 Ludwig Prandtl and his colleagues O. Tietjens and W. M\"uller published two films with visualizations of flows around surface piercing obstacles to illustrate the unsteady process of flow separation. These visualizations were achieved by recording the motion of fine particles sprinkled onto the water surface in water channels. The resulting images meet the relevant criteria of properly seeded recordings for particle image velocimetry (PIV). Processing these image sequences with modern PIV algorithms allows the visualization of flow quantities (e.g. vorticity) that were unavailable prior to the development of the PIV technique. The accompanying fluid dynamics video consists of selected original film sequences overlaid with visualizations obtained through PIV processing.
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@article{arxiv.1010.3149,
title = {PIV Analysis of Ludwig Prandtl's Historic Flow Visualization Films},
author = {Christian Willert and Jürgen Kompenhans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.3149},
year = {2010}
}
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Contribution to the "Gallery of Fluid Motion", 63rd Annual APS-DFD Meeting 2010, Long Beach (CA)