Abstract
The shape of a rising air bubble in a pipe flow is investigated with the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) flow visualization technique. To do so, a test volume of bubbly flow is globally illuminated with a pulsed light from a continuous wave laser with an acoustic-optic beam chopper, and is observed with four CCD cameras connected to frame grabbers. A digital image of the rising bubble is acquired and analyzed to identify its shape.
A reconstruction method, based on the Dynamic Generalized Hough Transform (DGHT), is described that can determine the two-dimensional shape of a bubble from a PIV image.
Volume Subject Area:
Thermal Hydraulics of Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Topics:
Bubbly flow,
Particulate matter,
Bubbles,
Shapes,
Acoustics,
Flow visualization,
Helicopters,
Lasers,
Pipe flow,
Waves
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