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The experimental flow visualization tool, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), is being extended to determine the velocity fields in three-dimensional, two-phase fluid flows. In the past few years, the technique has attracted quite a lot of interest. PIV enables fluid velocities across a region of a flow to be measured at a single instant in time in the whole volume (global) of interest. This instantaneous velocity profile of a given flow field is determined by digitally recording particle (microspheres or bubbles) images within the flow over multiple successive video frames and then conducting flow pattern identification and analysis of the data. This paper presents instantaneous velocity measurements in various three-dimensional, bubbly two-phase flow situations. This information is useful for developing or improving existing computer constitutive models that simulate this type of flow field. It is also useful for understanding the detailed structure of two-phase flows.
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Hassan,Y. A., Schmidl, W. D. and Ortiz-Villafuerte, J. 301 Yassin A. Hassan : He (BS, nuclear engineering, University of Alexandria, 1968 ; Ms, 1975, and Ph. D., 1979, nuclear engineering, University of Illinois ; MS, mechanical engineering, University of Virginia, 1985) is a professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. His interests include computational and experimental fluid flow, turbulence, two-phase flows, laser velocimetry and imaging techniques, and nuclear reactor safety.
William Daniel Schmidl : He received his BS(Eng) degree in marine systems engineering in 1990 from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and his M.S degree in nuclear engineering in1992 from Texas A&M University. His research interests are in the area of experimental fluid flow and quantitative full-field flow visualization using particle image velocimetry.
Javier Ortiz-Villafuerte : He is a Ph. D. candidate in Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received a BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics from Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas (ESFM), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), México, in 1992, and a MSc degree in Nuclear Engineering from Departamento de Ingeniería Nuclear, ESFM, IPN, in 1994. He worked at Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias, México, doing simulation of severe accidents for the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant. His research areas are the application of computer vision techniques to flow visualization, and the development of neural networks as tracking algorithms in the study of two-phase flows.
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Hassan, Y.A., Schmidl, W.D. & Ortiz-Villafuerte, J. Three-dimensional bubbly flow measurement using PIV. J Vis 1, 291–301 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03181410
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