Particle Image Velocimetry: Progress Towards Industrial Application / Edition 1

by Michel Stanislas, Jïrgen Kompenhans, J. Westerweel

Overview

The aeronautics industry is presently aiming for faster design cycles and shorter time to market of new aircraft. It is looking at the same time for improved aerodynamic performance, for evident competitive reasons. Advanced, computer based design systems, including fast and reliable numerical flow solvers, have been developed in the last decade including new turbulence models. On the experimental side, measurement techniques in general have also been improved significantly, however the data evaluation process remains still very time consuming, and unsteady effects and turbulence are often not being captured with sufficient accuracy and detail. The development of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has helped to improve the analysis of the flow fields. After investigations in laboratory scale wind tunnels, a joint initiative on PIV research, by the European Aerospace Research Establishments, within GARTEUR have enabled a wide breakthrough of this new technology in Europe. Within the Research Framework Program of the European Union, the joint research project EUROPIV aimed to apply PIV technology to problems of industrial interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792361602
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/30/2000
Series:	Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications , #56
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	540
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Tests and comparison of different recording set-ups.- 3. Test and comparison of various methods of analysis and post-processing on a Database of PIV records.- 4. Full scale PIV Test in an Industrial Facility.- 5. Numerical simulation of the industrial test.- 6. New developments of the method.- 7. General conclusion.- Annex 1: Individual papers.

Editorial Reviews

A presentation of two years of cooperative research activity undertaken by 20 European teams on the development of particle image velocimetry (PIV). The authors present comparisons of both recording and analyzing of PIV images and detail the database that has been built. Industrial application in a large wind tunnel, validation of up-to-date numerical predictions, and new developments including extension to 3C are also addressed. Other aspects of the development of the method presented include PTV, video recording, stereo-PIV, and holo-PIV. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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