scholarly journals In Situ Underwater Average Flow Velocity Estimation Using a Low-cost Video Velocimeter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pichaya Lertvilai ◽  
Paul L.D. Roberts ◽  
Jules S. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Velocity Vector ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Velocity Estimation ◽  
Image Correlation ◽  
Front Face ◽  
Correlation Technique ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Average Flow ◽  
Average Flow Velocity

AbstractThe development of a low-cost Video Velocimeter (VIV) to estimate underwater bulk flow velocity is described. The instrument utilizes a simplified particle image correlation technique to reconstruct an average flow velocity vector from video recordings of ambient particles. The VIV uses a single camera with a set of mirrors that splits the view into two stereoscopic views, allowing estimation of the flow velocity vector. The VIV was validated in a controlled flume using ambient seawater, and subsequently field tested together with an acoustic Doppler velocimeter with both mounted close to the coastal seafloor. When used in non-turbulent flow, the instrument can estimate mean flow velocity parallel to the front face of the instrument with root-mean-squared errors of the main flow within 10% of the ±20 cm/s measurement range when compared to an ADV. The predominant feature of the VIV is that it is a cost-effective method to estimate flow velocity in complex benthic habitats where velocity parallel to the sea floor is of interest.

scholarly journals Влияние на аномальную интенсификацию отрывного турбулентного течения угла наклона однорядных овально-траншейных лунок на стабилизированном гидродинамическом участке узкого канала

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (21) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
С.А. Исаев ◽  
А.Б Мазо ◽  
Д.В. Никущенко ◽  
И.А. Попов ◽  
А.Г. Судаков
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Narrow Channel ◽  
Swirling Flows ◽  
Secondary Flows ◽  
Average Flow ◽  
Dramatic Effect ◽  
Average Flow Velocity ◽  
Negative Friction

The slope of the oval-trench dimple in the corridor package on the hydrodynamic stabilized section of the narrow channel has a dramatic effect on the anomalous intensification of returned and swirling flows in the dimple, leading to a 3–4-fold decrease in relative negative friction in the range of angles from 40° to 60°, an increase in the highest speed return and secondary flows up to 0.8 and 1.18 with respect to the mass-average flow velocity in the channel.

scholarly journals ASYMMETRIC FLOW VELOCITY MEASUREMENT USING MULTIPATH ULTRASONIC FLOWMETER WITH ADAPTIVE WEIGHTING METHOD GUIDED BY TOMOGRAPHY

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairul Amri ◽  
Suprijanto Suprijanto ◽  
Deddy Kurniadi ◽  
Endang Juliastuti
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Mapping Function ◽  
Flow Profile ◽  
Asymmetric Flow ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Alternative Scheme ◽  
Average Flow ◽  
Average Flow Velocity ◽  
Adaptive Weighting ◽  
Flow Profiles

A conventional transit time ultrasonic flowmeter (USM) has a high accuracy for symmetric flow profiles but inaccurate for asymmetric flow profiles. Flow profile shapes can also change over time and difficult to predict. USM with tomographic configuration (USM-Tomo) can adapt to the flow profile changes but result in low temporal resolution. Meanwhile, USM with an adaptive weighting method can measure asymmetric flow velocity but limited to specific asymmetric flow profiles. An alternative scheme to determine adaptive weighting in various asymmetric flow profiles, we proposed a hybrid USM-Tomo. This scheme proposes programmable acoustic path configuration that could set the path mode between USM and tomography. Reducing computation of time of flight in each acoustic can be done by applying the dual-transducers technique. An adaptive weighting of hybrid USM-Tomo is calculated based on the mapping function between the set of velocity on 6 parallel paths of USM and average flow velocity from USM-Tomo. The mapping function is determined using machine learning, i.e., Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Regression (SVR). In the measurement phase, the average flow velocity is determined using the mapping function with input 6 parallel acoustic paths.  Based on various types of asymmetric flow profiles used in the experiment, the 6 parallel acoustic paths of USM could produce average flow velocity with error below 1% compared to USM-Tomo. Therefore, the proposed hybrid USM-Tomo scheme has potential to be an alternative scheme for flow meter in industrial application.

scholarly journals Analysis of fluid flow around a beating artificial cilium

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Vilfan ◽  
Gašper Kokot ◽  
Andrej Vilfan ◽  
Natan Osterman ◽  
Blaž Kavčič ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Rotation Frequency ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Average Flow ◽  
Average Flow Velocity ◽  
Tracer Particles ◽  
Beat Pattern ◽  
Unicellular Organisms

Biological cilia are found on surfaces of some microorganisms and on surfaces of many eukaryotic cells where they interact with the surrounding fluid. The periodic beating of the cilia is asymmetric, resulting in directed swimming of unicellular organisms or in generation of a fluid flow above a ciliated surface in multicellular ones. Following the biological example, externally driven artificial cilia have recently been successfully implemented as micropumps and mixers. However, biomimetic systems are useful not only in microfluidic applications, but can also serve as model systems for the study of fundamental hydrodynamic phenomena in biological samples. To gain insight into the basic principles governing propulsion and fluid pumping on a micron level, we investigated hydrodynamics around one beating artificial cilium. The cilium was composed of superparamagnetic particles and driven along a tilted cone by a varying external magnetic field. Nonmagnetic tracer particles were used for monitoring the fluid flow generated by the cilium. The average flow velocity in the pumping direction was obtained as a function of different parameters, such as the rotation frequency, the asymmetry of the beat pattern, and the cilium length. We also calculated the velocity field around the beating cilium by using the analytical far-field expansion. The measured average flow velocity and the theoretical prediction show an excellent agreement.

scholarly journals Flow Velocity Measurement Using a Spatial Averaging Method with Two-Dimensional Flexural Ultrasonic Array Technology

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (21) ◽  
pp. 4786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Kang ◽  
Andrew Feeney ◽  
Riliang Su ◽  
David Lines ◽  
Sivaram Nishal Ramadas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Flow Measurement ◽  
Averaging Method ◽  
Spatial Averaging ◽  
Flow Meters ◽  
Average Flow ◽  
Average Flow Velocity ◽  
Array Transducer ◽  
Flow Velocity Measurement ◽  
Ultrasonic Array

Accurate average flow velocity determination is essential for flow measurement in many industries, including automotive, chemical, and oil and gas. The ultrasonic transit-time method is common for average flow velocity measurement, but current limitations restrict measurement accuracy, including fluid dynamic effects from unavoidable phenomena such as turbulence, swirls or vortices, and systematic flow meter errors in calibration or configuration. A new spatial averaging method is proposed, based on flexural ultrasonic array transducer technology, to improve measurement accuracy and reduce the uncertainty of the measurement results. A novel two-dimensional flexural ultrasonic array transducer is developed to validate this measurement method, comprising eight individual elements, each forming distinct paths to a single ultrasonic transducer. These paths are distributed in two chordal planes, symmetric and adjacent to a diametral plane. It is demonstrated that the root-mean-square deviation of the average flow velocity, computed using the spatial averaging method with the array transducer is 2.94%, which is lower compared to that of the individual paths ranging from 3.65% to 8.87% with an average of 6.90%. This is advantageous for improving the accuracy and reducing the uncertainty of classical single-path ultrasonic flow meters, and also for conventional multi-path ultrasonic flow meters through the measurement via each flow plane with reduced uncertainty. This research will drive new developments in ultrasonic flow measurement in a wide range of industrial applications.

scholarly journals Utilization of 6 × 6 cm format vertical aerial photographs for repetitive mapping of surface morphology and measurement of flow velocities of a small glacier in a remote area: Glaciar Soler, Hielo Patagónico Norte, Chile

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 385-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masamu Aniya ◽  
Renji Naruse ◽  
Satoru Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Surface Morphology ◽  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Average Flow ◽  
Ablation Area ◽  
Average Flow Velocity ◽  
Northern Patagonia ◽  
Basal Sliding

AbstractUsing vertical aerial photographs taken manually with a 6 × 6 cm format camera in 1984, 1986 and 1999, the surface morphology of the ablation area of Glaciar Soler, Hielo Patagónico Norte (northern Patagonia icefield), Chile, was studied. Glaciar Soler has an area of 50.9 km2; the ablation area below the icefall is about 7 km long and 2 km wide. An uncontrolled aerial-photographic mosaic for the area below the icefall was assembled from 40–60 aerial photographs, on which the surface morphology was mapped from interpretation of stereo pairs of the enlarged photographs (scales of 1:4500 to 1: 8000). Themapped features include debris-free and debris-covered ices, ogive bands and waves, crevasses, supraglacial streams, moulins, medial moraines, troughs and grooves. A total of 32–34 pairs of ogive bands were recognized, from which an average flow velocity of about 160 m a–1 was deduced. The spacing of a pair of light and dark ogive bands indicates that the flow velocity ranges from about 350 ma–1 near the icefall to some 100 ma–1 near the snout. Comparison of the field-measured data with the ogive spacing indicates that the seasonal variation in flow velocity of Glaciar Soler is very large, probably because of variation in the amount of basal sliding.

Direct Measurement of the Mean Flow Velocity Vector

1976 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 736-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Kirchhoff ◽  
R. M. Struziak
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Velocity Vector ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Response Equation ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Lock In ◽  
Mean Flow Velocity

The response of a single inclined rotating hot wire anemometer was analyzed. The mean flow anemometer response equation was expanded in a Fourier Series about the fundamental frequency of rotation. Utilizing the d-c level and the first two harmonics of the response it is possible to construct the mean flow velocity vector within a solid angle determined by the mounting angle of the wire. The rotating anemometer response was measured using the technique of two phase lock-in detection to determine the first two harmonics and their phases relative to the fundamental frequency of rotation. Determination of the mean flow velocity vector using this technique was found to be feasible.

scholarly journals Optimization Design of I-Type Plastic Extrusion Die Based on Flow Balance

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 694-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Feng Fang ◽  
Li-Hua Cai ◽  
Ming-Qiang Wang ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
De-Fang He
Keyword(s):  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Transition Section ◽  
Average Flow Velocity ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Extrusion Die ◽  
Design Variables

With the I-type plastic extrusion die for example, the advantages and disadvantages between the traditional design method and optimization design method were compared. The design was studied via finite element numeric analysis combined with optimization, whose objective was the equal average flow velocity of each sub-field of profile cross section at extrusion die. And the optimization design was studied by tacking the thickness of the entrance of transition section and the sectional dimension of forming section as the design variables. An example was provided to illustrate the optimization method proposed above. Results showed that the flow nonuniformity index could be reduced almost 9% and the mean flow velocity could be improved 28% by optimizing the design variables such as the thickness of the entrance of transition section and the sectional dimension of forming section.

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