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Pulse-burst PIV in a high-speed wind tunnel

53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Beresh, Steven J.; Kearney, S.P.; Wagner, Justin W.; Guildenbecher, Daniel R.; Henfling, John F.; Spillers, Russell W.; Pruett, Brian O.; Jiang, Naibo; Slipchenko, Mikhail N.; Mance, Jason; Roy, Sukesh

Time-resolved particle image velocimetry (TR-PIV) has been achieved in a high-speed wind tunnel, providing velocity field movies of compressible turbulence events. The requirements of high-speed flows demand greater energy at faster pulse rates than possible with the TR-PIV systems developed for low-speed flows. This has been realized using a pulse-burst laser to obtain movies at up to 50 kHz with higher speeds possible at the cost of spatial resolution. The constraints imposed by use of a pulse-burst laser are a limited burst duration of 10.2 ms and a low duty cycle for data acquisition. Pulse-burst PIV has been demonstrated in a supersonic jet exhausting into a transonic crossflow and in transonic flow over a rectangular cavity. The velocity field sequences reveal the passage of turbulent structures and can be used to find velocity power spectra at every point in the field, providing spatial distributions of acoustic modes. The present work represents the first use of TR-PIV in a high-speed ground test facility.

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Digital in-line holography to quantify secondary droplets from the impact of a single drop on a thin film

Experiments in Fluids

Guildenbecher, Daniel R.; Engvall, Luke; Gao, Jian; Grasser, Thomas W.; Reu, Phillip L.; Chen, Jun

Digital in-line holography (DIH) is an optical technique which measures particle sizes and their three-dimensional (3D) positions and velocities. Here DIH and a recently proposed hybrid method of particle detection are applied to quantify the secondary droplets generated by the impact of a single drop on a thin film. By leveraging the expected symmetry between in-plane and out-of-plane velocities, experimental depth uncertainty is measured to be approximately 0.7 of the mean droplet diameter. Furthermore, comparison with previous measurements using alternative techniques shows good agreement with the measured temporal evolution of drop number, size, and velocity components. Finally, the power of DIH to extract the complex 3D morphology of the protruding jets is demonstrated. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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Developments in digital in-line holography enable validated measurement of 3D particle field dynamics

Guildenbecher, Daniel R.

Digital in-line holography is an optical technique which can be applied to measure the size, three-dimensional position, and three-component velocity of disperse particle fields. This work summarizes recent developments at Sandia National Laboratories focused on improvement in measurement accuracy, experimental validation, and applications to multiphase flows. New routines are presented which reduce the uncertainty in measured position along the optical axis to a fraction of the particle diameter. Furthermore, application to liquid atomization highlights the ability to measure complex, three-dimensional structures. Finally, investigation of particles traveling at near sonic conditions prove accuracy despite significant experimental noise due to shock-waves.

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