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Measurement of fully-developed turbulent pipe flow with digital particle image velocimetry

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A new and unique high-resolution image acquisition system for digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) in turbulent flows is used for the measurement of fully-developed turbulent pipe flow at a Reynolds number of 5300. The flow conditions of the pipe flow match those of a direct numerical simulation (DNS) and of measurements with conventional (viz., photographic) PIV and with laser-Doppler velocimetry (LDV). This experiment allows a direct and detailed comparison of the conventional and digital implementations of the PIV method for a non-trivial unsteady flow. The results for the turbulence statistics and power spectra show that the level of accuracy for DPIV is comparable to that of conventional PIV, despite a considerable difference in the interrogation pixel resolution, i.e. 32 × 32 (DPIV) versus 256 × 256 (PIV). This result is in agreement with an earlier analytical prediction for the measurement accuracy. One of the advantages of DPIV over conventional PIV is that the interrogation of the DPIV images takes only a fraction of the time needed for the interrogation of the PIV photographs.

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  1. Laboratory for Aero and Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology, NL-2628 AL, Delft, Rotterdamseweg 145, The Netherlands

    J. Westerweel, A. A. Draad, J. G. Th. van der Hoeven & J. van Oord

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The research of dr. ir. J. Westerweel has been made possible by a fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ir. A. A. Draad receives financial support from Shell Research. The authors wish to thank C. Gerritsen and Ing. G. van der Velden for the technical support and their assistance during the measurements, and G. J. R. Tahitu and ir. J. M. J. den Toonder for providing us with the LDV data. We also would like to thank prof. dr. ir. F. T. M. Nieuwstadt for his suggestions and remarks with respect to the manuscript and for discussions on resolution aspects in DNS, and dr. ir. J. G. M. Eggels who also participated in the discussions on DNS.

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Westerweel, J., Draad, A.A., van der Hoeven, J.G.T. et al. Measurement of fully-developed turbulent pipe flow with digital particle image velocimetry. Experiments in Fluids 20, 165–177 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190272

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