scholarly journals Simultaneous velocity measurement of phases in a liquid-gas system

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-585
Author(s):  
Radosław Musoski ◽  
Jacek Stelmach

Abstract Results of velocity measurements of liquid and gas bubbles in a tank with a self-aspirating disk impeller are analysed. Studies were carried out using a fluorescent dye tracer in the measuring system with two cameras (simultaneous phase velocity measurement) and with one camera (sequential measurement of phase velocity). Based on a comparative analysis of the acquired data it was found that when differences in the phase velocities were small the simultaneous velocity measurement gave good results. However, sequential measurement gives greater possibilities for setting the measuring system and if the analysis of instantaneous velocities is not necessary, it seems to be a better solution.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yihe Xu ◽  
Sergei Lebedev ◽  
Raffaele Bonadio ◽  
Thomas Meier ◽  
Christopher Bean

<p>High-frequency seismic surface waves sample the top few tens of meters to the top few kilometres of the subsurface. They can be used to determine three-dimensional distributions of shear-wave velocities and to map the depths of discontinuities (interfaces) within the crust. Passive seismic imaging, using ambient noise as the source of signal, can thus be an effective tool of exploration for mineral, geothermal and other resources, provided that sufficient high-frequency signal is available in the ambient noise wavefield and that accurate, high-frequency measurements can be performed on this signal. Ambient noise imaging using the ocean-generated noise at 5-30 s periods is now a standard method, but less signal is available at frequencies high enough for deposit-scale imaging (0.2-30 Hz), and few studies have reported successful measurements in broad frequency bands. Here, we develop a workflow for the measurement of high-frequency, surface-wave phase velocities in very broad frequency ranges. Our workflow comprises (1) a new noise cross-correlation procedure that accounts for the non-stationary properties of the high frequency noise sources, removes bandpass filtering, replaces temporal normalization with short time window stacking, and drops the explicit spectral normalization by adopting cross-coherence; (2) a new phase-velocity measurement method that extends the bandwidth of reliable measurements by exploiting the (resolved) 2π ambiguity of phase-velocity measurements; (3) interstation-distance-dependent quality control that uses the similarity of subgroups of dispersion curves to reject outliers and identify the frequency ranges with accurate measurements. The workflow is highly automated and applicable to large arrays. Applying our method to data from a large-N array that operated for one month near Marathon, Ontario, Canada, we use rectangular subarrays with 150-m station spacing and, typically, 1 hour of data and obtain Rayleigh-wave phase-velocity measurements in a 0.55-23.8 Hz frequency range, spanning over 5.4 octaves, nearly twice the typical frequency range of 1.5-3 octaves in previous studies. Phase-velocity maps and the subregion-average 1D velocity models they constrain show a high-velocity anomaly consistent with the known, west-dipping gabbro intrusions beneath the area. The new structural information can improve our understanding of the geometry of the gabbro intrusions, hosting the Cu-PGE Marathon deposit.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 1717-1729
Author(s):  
Yinhe Luo ◽  
Yingjie Yang ◽  
Jinyun Xie ◽  
Xiaozhou Yang ◽  
Fengru Ren ◽  
...  

Abstract Ambient-noise tomography (ANT) has become a well-established method to image the crust and uppermost mantle structures in the past 15 yr. Having a good estimate of uncertainties of phase velocity dispersion measurements in ANT is critical as they can guide the level of data fitting in tomography. However, to date, there are still no systemic studies to evaluate these uncertainties. In this study, we obtain cross correlations with different stacking durations from 17 yr of ambient-noise data recorded at 120 stations in the United States. We analyze the variations of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and phase velocities of cross correlations. We find that the uncertainties of phase velocities are affected by SNRs, interstation distances, and stacking durations. However, none of those three variables can be solely used as a proxy to estimate the uncertainties of phase velocity measurements. Based on our analysis, we graphically present empirical relations of uncertainties of phase velocity measurements as a function of SNR, interstation distance, and stacking duration. These relations can be employed as a guide to estimate phase velocity uncertainties in applications of ANT, assisting in evaluating the reliability of resulting models from ANT.


Author(s):  
Shichuan Yuan ◽  
Zhenguo Zhang ◽  
Hengxin Ren ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Xianhai Song ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT In this study, the characteristics of Love waves in viscoelastic vertical transversely isotropic layered media are investigated by finite-difference numerical modeling. The accuracy of the modeling scheme is tested against the theoretical seismograms of isotropic-elastic and isotropic-viscoelastic media. The correctness of the modeling results is verified by the theoretical phase-velocity dispersion curves of Love waves in isotropic or anisotropic elastic or viscoelastic media. In two-layer half-space models, the effects of velocity anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation anisotropy of media on Love waves are studied in detail by comparing the modeling results obtained for anisotropic-elastic, isotropic-viscoelastic, and anisotropic-viscoelastic media with those obtained for isotropic-elastic media. Then, Love waves in three typical four-layer half-space models are simulated to further analyze the characteristics of Love waves in anisotropic-viscoelastic layered media. The results show that Love waves propagating in anisotropic-viscoelastic media are affected by both the anisotropy and viscoelasticity of media. The velocity anisotropy of media causes substantial changes in the values and distribution range of phase velocities of Love waves. The viscoelasticity of media leads to the amplitude attenuation and phase velocity dispersion of Love waves, and these effects increase with decreasing quality factors. The attenuation anisotropy of media indicates that the viscoelasticity degree of media is direction dependent. Comparisons of phase velocity ratios suggest that the change degree of Love-wave phase velocities due to viscoelasticity is much less than that caused by velocity anisotropy.


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 1597-1605 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Chou ◽  
S. L. McBride ◽  
N. Rumin

The complete elastic constants tensor of monoclinic potassium cobalticyanide [K3Co(CN)6] has been determined from measured ultrasonic phase velocities. These were obtained as a function of direction in several crystal planes by measuring the acoustic energy reflection coefficient at a liquid–solid interface as a function of angle and plane of incidence. The measurements were made at 27.6 MHz in p-xylene at 21.5 °C. The elastic constants were determined using an existing perturbation method. Velocities calculated from the derived elastic constants are in agreement with the measured velocities to within experimental error and the approximations in the perturbation calculation. The usefulness of this method for the determination of the elastic constants of low symmetry crystals is thus established. The Debye temperature of K3Co(CN)6 is estimated from the results to be 290 ± 10 °K with a corresponding mean acoustic velocity of 2560 ± 80 m/s.


Geophysics ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1774-1779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Dellinger ◽  
Lev Vernik

The elastic properties of layered rocks are often measured using the pulse through‐transmission technique on sets of cylindrical cores cut at angles of 0, 90, and 45 degrees to the layering normal (e.g., Vernik and Nur, 1992; Lo et al., 1986; Jones and Wang, 1981). In this method transducers are attached to the flat ends of the three cores (see Figure 1), the first‐break traveltimes of P, SV, and SH‐waves down the axes are measured, and a set of transversely isotropic elastic constants are fit to the results. The usual assumption is that frequency dispersion, boundary reflections, and near‐field effects can all be safely ignored, and that the traveltimes measure either vertical anisotropic group velocity (if the transducers are very small compared to their separation) or phase velocity (if the transducers are relatively wide compared to their separation) (Auld, 1973).


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