Experimental Techniques in Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Course guarantor:

Jiří Polanský, Michal Schmirler

Lecturer:

Jiří Polanský, Michal Schmirler

Tutor:

Jiří Polanský, Michal Schmirler

Supervisor:

Department of Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics

Synopsis:

Measurement of Primary Quantities. Material Properties Measurement: Density, Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension of Liquids, Viscosity, Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Diffusivity, Diffusion, Electric and Magnetic Parameters of Liquids and Gases

Pressure Measurement Systems: Measurement of Pressure with Wall Tappings, Static Tubes, Pressure-Sensitive Paint

Velocity, Vorticity, and Mach Number measurement: Pressure-Based Velocity Measurements, Thermal Anemometry, ParticleBased Techniques, Molecular Tagging Velocimetry, Vorticity, Thermal Transient Anemometer, Sonic Anemometry/Thermometry

Density-Based Techniques: Density, Refractive Index, and Optical Flow Visualization, Schlieren Method, Moiré Deflectometry, Interferometry, Optical Tomography

Temperature and Heat Flux

Measurements of Surface Heat Transfer Characteristics

Using Infrared Imaging, Temperature Measurement via Absorption, Light Scattering and Laser-Induced Fluorescence, Transition Detection by Temperature-Sensitive Paint

Flow Visualization: Aims and Principles of Flow Visualization, Visualizations of Flow Structures and Flow Direction, Visualization of Free Surface Flows

Wall-Bounded Flows: Measurement of Wall Shear Stress, Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition

Flow Measurement Techniques in Turbomachinery: Optical and Non-Optical Measurement Techniques

Analysis and Post-Processing of Data: Fourier Transform, Correlation Function, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Conditional Averages and Stochastic Estimation, Wavelet Transforms

Particle Image Velocimetry in detail

Physical and Technical Background: Tracer Particles, Particle Generation, Light Sources, Light Delivery, Imaging of Particles, Sensor Technology for Digital Image Recording

Recording Techniques for PIV

Mathematical Background of PIV Evaluation

Image Evaluation Methods for PIV

PIV Uncertainty and Measurement Accuracy

Post-processing of PIV Data

Stereoscopic PIV, Micro-PIV

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Study materials:

Cameron Tropea , Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Springer, 2007, ISBN: 0387233792

Markus Raffel et al., Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide, Springer, 2018, ISBN: 3319688510

Jaime Klapp, Selected Topics of Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics Springer, 2015, ISBN: 978-3-319-11486-6

J. C. Cajas, et al., Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics, Springer, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-00115-9

Leonardo Di. G. Sigalotti, Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Applications to Physics, Engineering and the Environment, Springer 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-00190-6

Lionel Schouveiler,Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics, Publisher: Springer 2012, ISBN: 3642179576

G. Cavvazini The Particle Image Velocimetry - Chars., Limits, Poss. Applns., Intech ,2012, ISBN: 978-953-51-0625-8

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: