High-resolution Particle-Image Velocimetry （PIV） and time-resolved force measurements were performed to analyze the impact of the comb-like structure on the leading edge of barn owl wings on the flow field and overa...High-resolution Particle-Image Velocimetry （PIV） and time-resolved force measurements were performed to analyze the impact of the comb-like structure on the leading edge of barn owl wings on the flow field and overall aerodynamic performance. The Reynolds number was varied in the range of 40,000 to 120,000 and the range of angle of attack was 0° to 6° for the PIV and -15° to ＋20° for the force measurements to cover the full flight envelope of the owl. As a reference, a wind-tunnel model which possessed a geometry based on the shape of a typical barn owl wing without any owl-specific adaptations was built, and measurements were performed in the aforementioned Reynolds number and angle of attack： range. This clean wing model shows a separation bubble in the distal part of the wing at higher angles of attack. Two types of comb-like structures, i.e., artificial serrations, were manufactured to model the owl＇s leading edge with respect to its length, thickness, and material properties. The artificial structures were able to reduce the size of the separation region and additionally cause a more uniform size of the vortical structures shed by the separation bubble within the Reynolds number range investigated, resulting in stable gliding flight independent of the flight velocity. However, due to increased drag coefficients in conjunction with similar lift coefficients, the overall aerodynamic performance, i.e., lift-to-drag ratio is reduced for the serrated models. Nevertheless, especially at lower Reynolds numbers the stabilizing effect of the uniform vortex size outperforms the lower aerodynamic performance.展开更多
An experimental study to investigate various features of subsurface vortices and their evolutions inside a closed pump intake under different pressure conditions at free surface,and to analyze the influence of a pipe ...An experimental study to investigate various features of subsurface vortices and their evolutions inside a closed pump intake under different pressure conditions at free surface,and to analyze the influence of a pipe bell with different mean axial velocities at the same water level on flow patterns is presented.For all cases,three different flow regimes are closely observed:various side-wall attached,back-wall attached and submerged vortices structures,and their evolutions are subject to the free-surface pressure for a critical flow rate,the number and strength of all these vortex rise as the absolute value of the pressure increases for a higher flow rate,for a lower flow rate,whether the side-wall vortices occur or not is related closely to the pressure magnitude,and there are no vortices for lower absolute pressure values,the number and the strength of the side-wall vortices increase as the absolute pressure values increase.Besides,based on statistical analyses,the side-wall vortex probability on the right side along the stream-wise direction is much higher than that on the opposite side for all operation cases,particularly single vortex probability,and the back-wall vortex probabilities are quite higher with values of more than 90%,meanwhile,the multi-vortices probability is much higher than that of the single-vortex.The captured vortices have been qualitatively classified into different“vortex zones”:no vortex zones and vortex zones including transition,single-and multi-vortex.The Reynolds number and the absolute value pressure are the most important parameters which influence the existence and the number of these vortices,and the increase of the two parameters reduces the no vortex transition zone and causes bigger difference in the back-wall and side-wall vortex zones.展开更多
An on-line full scan inspection system is developed for particle size analysis. A particle image is first obtained through optical line scan technology and is then analyzed using digital image processing. The system i...An on-line full scan inspection system is developed for particle size analysis. A particle image is first obtained through optical line scan technology and is then analyzed using digital image processing. The system is composed of a particle separation module, an image acquisition module, an image processing module, and an electric control module. Experiments are carried out using non-uniform 0.1 mm particles. The main advantage of this system consists of a full analysis of particles without any overlap or miss, thus improving the Area Scan Charge Coupled Device （CCD） acquisition problems. Particle size distribution, roundness, and sphericity can be obtained using the system with a deviation of repeated precision of around ±1%. The developed system is shown to be also convenient and versatile for any particle size and shape for academic and industrial users.展开更多
A novel method is developed for in-line measurements of particle size, velocity and concentration in a dilute, particulate two-phase flow based on trajectory image processing. The measurement system consists of a comm...A novel method is developed for in-line measurements of particle size, velocity and concentration in a dilute, particulate two-phase flow based on trajectory image processing. The measurement system consists of a common industrial CCD camera, an inexpensive LED light and a telecentric lens. In this work, the image pre-processing steps include stitching, illumination correction, binarization, denoising, and the elimination of unreal and defocused particles. A top-hat transformation is found to be very effective for the binarization of images with non-uniform background illumination. Particle trajectories measured within a certain exposure time are used to directly obtain particle size and velocity. The particle concentration is calculated by using the statistics of recognized particles within the field of view. We validate our method by analyzing experiments in a gas-droplet cyclone separator. This in-line image processing method can significantly reduce the measurement cost and avoid the data inversion process involved in the light scattering method.展开更多
The gray of two images of a same particle taken by a digital camera with different exposure times is different too. Based on the gray difference of particle images in a double-exposed photo and autocorrelation process...The gray of two images of a same particle taken by a digital camera with different exposure times is different too. Based on the gray difference of particle images in a double-exposed photo and autocorrelation processing of digital images,this paper proposes a method for measuring particle velocities and sizes simultaneously. This paper also introduces the theoretical foundation of this method,the process of particle imaging and image processing,and the simultaneous measurement of velocity and size of a low speed flow field with 35 μm and 75 μm standard particles. The graphical measurement results can really reflect the flow characteristics of the flow field. In addition,although the measured velocity and size histograms of these two kinds of standard particles are slightly wider than the theoretical ones,they are all still similar to the normal distribution,and the peak velocities and diameters of the histograms are consistent with the default values. Therefore,this measurement method is capable of providing moderate measurement accuracy,and it can be further developed for high-speed flow field measurements.展开更多
文摘High-resolution Particle-Image Velocimetry （PIV） and time-resolved force measurements were performed to analyze the impact of the comb-like structure on the leading edge of barn owl wings on the flow field and overall aerodynamic performance. The Reynolds number was varied in the range of 40,000 to 120,000 and the range of angle of attack was 0° to 6° for the PIV and -15° to ＋20° for the force measurements to cover the full flight envelope of the owl. As a reference, a wind-tunnel model which possessed a geometry based on the shape of a typical barn owl wing without any owl-specific adaptations was built, and measurements were performed in the aforementioned Reynolds number and angle of attack： range. This clean wing model shows a separation bubble in the distal part of the wing at higher angles of attack. Two types of comb-like structures, i.e., artificial serrations, were manufactured to model the owl＇s leading edge with respect to its length, thickness, and material properties. The artificial structures were able to reduce the size of the separation region and additionally cause a more uniform size of the vortical structures shed by the separation bubble within the Reynolds number range investigated, resulting in stable gliding flight independent of the flight velocity. However, due to increased drag coefficients in conjunction with similar lift coefficients, the overall aerodynamic performance, i.e., lift-to-drag ratio is reduced for the serrated models. Nevertheless, especially at lower Reynolds numbers the stabilizing effect of the uniform vortex size outperforms the lower aerodynamic performance.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51479196,51779257)the National Natural Science Foundation for the Youth of China(Grant No.51909132).
文摘An experimental study to investigate various features of subsurface vortices and their evolutions inside a closed pump intake under different pressure conditions at free surface,and to analyze the influence of a pipe bell with different mean axial velocities at the same water level on flow patterns is presented.For all cases,three different flow regimes are closely observed:various side-wall attached,back-wall attached and submerged vortices structures,and their evolutions are subject to the free-surface pressure for a critical flow rate,the number and strength of all these vortex rise as the absolute value of the pressure increases for a higher flow rate,for a lower flow rate,whether the side-wall vortices occur or not is related closely to the pressure magnitude,and there are no vortices for lower absolute pressure values,the number and the strength of the side-wall vortices increase as the absolute pressure values increase.Besides,based on statistical analyses,the side-wall vortex probability on the right side along the stream-wise direction is much higher than that on the opposite side for all operation cases,particularly single vortex probability,and the back-wall vortex probabilities are quite higher with values of more than 90%,meanwhile,the multi-vortices probability is much higher than that of the single-vortex.The captured vortices have been qualitatively classified into different“vortex zones”:no vortex zones and vortex zones including transition,single-and multi-vortex.The Reynolds number and the absolute value pressure are the most important parameters which influence the existence and the number of these vortices,and the increase of the two parameters reduces the no vortex transition zone and causes bigger difference in the back-wall and side-wall vortex zones.
文摘An on-line full scan inspection system is developed for particle size analysis. A particle image is first obtained through optical line scan technology and is then analyzed using digital image processing. The system is composed of a particle separation module, an image acquisition module, an image processing module, and an electric control module. Experiments are carried out using non-uniform 0.1 mm particles. The main advantage of this system consists of a full analysis of particles without any overlap or miss, thus improving the Area Scan Charge Coupled Device （CCD） acquisition problems. Particle size distribution, roundness, and sphericity can be obtained using the system with a deviation of repeated precision of around ±1%. The developed system is shown to be also convenient and versatile for any particle size and shape for academic and industrial users.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51206112,51076106, 51176128)the Science and Technology Support Program in Shanghai(10540501000)
文摘A novel method is developed for in-line measurements of particle size, velocity and concentration in a dilute, particulate two-phase flow based on trajectory image processing. The measurement system consists of a common industrial CCD camera, an inexpensive LED light and a telecentric lens. In this work, the image pre-processing steps include stitching, illumination correction, binarization, denoising, and the elimination of unreal and defocused particles. A top-hat transformation is found to be very effective for the binarization of images with non-uniform background illumination. Particle trajectories measured within a certain exposure time are used to directly obtain particle size and velocity. The particle concentration is calculated by using the statistics of recognized particles within the field of view. We validate our method by analyzing experiments in a gas-droplet cyclone separator. This in-line image processing method can significantly reduce the measurement cost and avoid the data inversion process involved in the light scattering method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50676055)sponsored by Shanghai Rising-Star Program(Grant No.07QA1405)supported by Program for New Century Ex-cellent Talents in University(NCET-10-0605)
文摘The gray of two images of a same particle taken by a digital camera with different exposure times is different too. Based on the gray difference of particle images in a double-exposed photo and autocorrelation processing of digital images,this paper proposes a method for measuring particle velocities and sizes simultaneously. This paper also introduces the theoretical foundation of this method,the process of particle imaging and image processing,and the simultaneous measurement of velocity and size of a low speed flow field with 35 μm and 75 μm standard particles. The graphical measurement results can really reflect the flow characteristics of the flow field. In addition,although the measured velocity and size histograms of these two kinds of standard particles are slightly wider than the theoretical ones,they are all still similar to the normal distribution,and the peak velocities and diameters of the histograms are consistent with the default values. Therefore,this measurement method is capable of providing moderate measurement accuracy,and it can be further developed for high-speed flow field measurements.
