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The present study presents a simple but effective method for 3D visualization of the two-phase flow in the micro-tube. An isosceles right-angle prism combined with a mirror located 45^o bevel to the prism is employed to obtain synchronously…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-12 X. Fu , P. Zhang , H. Hu , C. J. Huang , Y. Huang , R. Z. Wang

In this work, we propose a framework whereby flow imaging data is leveraged to extract relevant information from flowfield visualizations. To this end, a vision transformer (ViT) model is developed to predict the unsteady pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Renato F. Miotto , William R. Wolf

In order to better understand the hydroplaning phenomenon, local velocity measurements of water flow are performed inside the tire grooves of a real car rolling through a water puddle. Velocity fields are obtained by combining refraction…

The performance of a wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV) algorithm to extract high accuracy and high resolution velocity fields from particle images in wall-bounded turbulent flows is assessed. wOFV is first evaluated using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-09 Alexander Nicolas , Florian Zentgraf , Mark Linne , Andreas Dreizler , Brian Peterson

A small water tunnel was designed as a table top experiment to visualize and measure basic fluid dynamic phenomena. The visualization of the flow by a laser light sheet and the measurement with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) proves to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-05 William Thielicke , Steffen Risius

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a classical flow estimation problem which is widely considered and utilised, especially as a diagnostic tool in experimental fluid dynamics and the remote sensing of environmental flows. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Mingrui Zhang , Matthew D. Piggott

This article describes two independent developments aimed at improving the Particle Tracking Method for measurements of flow or particle velocities. First, a stereoscopic multicamera calibration method that does not require any optical…

We examine the problem of performing simultaneous and coplanar Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) measurements in a stratified fluid initially at rest. Our focus is on enabling detailed velocity and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz

We introduce a Scanning Stereoscopic Particle Image velocimetry~(SSPIV) system which incorporates a thin rotating prism to obtain three-dimensional velocity fields in a large cubical measurement volume. The system makes use of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Paul van der Plas , Yutian He , Varghese Mathai

3D Particle Imaging Velocimetry (3D-PIV) aim to recover the flow field in a volume of fluid, which has been seeded with tracer particles and observed from multiple camera viewpoints. The first step of 3D-PIV is to reconstruct the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Katrin Lasinger , Christoph Vogel , Thomas Pock , Konrad Schindler

Scalar features in time-dependent fluid flow are traditionally visualized using 3D representation, and their topology changes over time are often conveyed with abstract graphs. Using such techniques, however, the structural details of…

Over the past decades, the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method has been the method of choice for simulating atomization processes, owing to its unique ability to discretely conserve mass. Current state-of-the-art VOF methods, however, rely on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Fabien Evrard , Robert Chiodi , Berend van Wachem , Olivier Desjardins

We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

Investigation of external flows past arbitrary objects requires access to the information in the boundary layer and the inviscid flow to paint a full picture of their characteristics. However, in laser diagnostic techniques such as particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-09 Shuangjiu Fu , Shabnam Raayai-Ardakani

Estimating time-resolved velocity and pressure fields from Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) remains challenging due to its limited temporal resolution in many applications. Data-driven approaches that combine snapshot PIV with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 Junwei Chen , Marco Raiola , Stefano Discetti

The atmospheric incoming flow of a wind turbine is intimately connected to its power production as well as its structural stability. Here we present an incoming flow measurement of a utility-scale turbine at the high spatio-temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-29 Cheng Li , Aliza Abraham , Biao Li , Jiarong Hong

Dual-tip phase-detection probes can be used to measure flow properties in gas-liquid flows. Traditionally, time-averaged interfacial velocities have been obtained through cross-correlation analysis of long time-series of phase fraction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-14 Matthias Kramer , Benjamin Hohermuth , Daniel Valero , Stefan Felder

We introduce a method for measuring the velocity of turbulent fluid flow passing through a pipe using piezoelectric tiles without penetrating the pipe, and without having previously designed the pipe to easily allow monitoring. To measure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 S. Hales Swift , Ihab F. El-Kady

We introduce a novel end-to-end approach to improving the resolution of PIV measurements. The method blends information from different snapshots without the need for time-resolved measurements on grounds of similarity of flow regions in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-07 Iacopo Tirelli , Andrea Ianiro , Stefano Discetti

The following is a report on an experimental technique allowing to quantify and map the velocity field with a very high resolution and a simple equipment in large 2D devices. A simple Shlieren technique is proposed to reinforce the contrast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-22 Johan Paiola , Harold Auradou , Hugues Bodiguel