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Ultrasonic Doppler Velocity Profiler for Fluid Flow

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Abstract

Because of the advantages of the ultrasonic velocity Doppler profiler (UVP), namely in spatiotemporal velocity field measurements and in its applicability for opaque liquids, UVP has a wide field of application in science and industry. The following chapter introduces carefully selected examples of applications covering relatively basic areas of application. The focus of the contents in this chapter is categorized into (1) studies of flow instability and transition (Sect. 5.1), (2) measurements and investigations of liquid metal flows (Sect. 5.2), (3) developments of new rheometry (Sect. 5.3), (4) determinations of rheological properties (Sect. 5.4), (5) studies of magnetic fluids (Sect. 5.5) and (6) gas–liquid two-phase flow (Sect. 5.6), (7) measurements of flowrate in turbidity flows (Sect. 5.7), and (8) ­determinations of flows in a deforming tube for biomedical applications (Sect. 5.8). The measurement and post-processing techniques used in this chapter are described in detail in Chaps. 4 and 7, and detailed explanations of these aspects are omitted in this chapter.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13 W8, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan

    Yuji Tasaka & Yuichi Murai

  2. Sika Services AG, Zürich, Switzerland

    Beat Birkhofer

  3. National Metrology Institute of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

    Noriyuki Furuichi

  4. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshige Kikura & Yasushi Takeda

  5. The University of Shiga Prefecture, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

    Hisato Minagawa

  6. Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

    Hideki Murakawa

  7. Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan

    Masaaki Motozawa

  8. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH-Zürich), Zürich, Switzerland

    Samsun Nahar, A. K. Jeelani Shaik & Erich J. Windhab

  9. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Ibaraki, Japan

    Hironari Obayashi

  10. Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

    Tatsuo Sawada

  11. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Yasushi Takeda

  12. Tokyo Electric Power Company, Yokohama, Japan

    Kenichi Tezuka & Sanehiro Wada

  13. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Yoshiyuki Tsuji

  14. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

    Takatoshi Yanagisawa

  15. The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK), Göteborg, Sweden

    Johan Wiklund

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Tasaka, Y. et al. (2012). Practical Applications. In: Takeda, Y. (eds) Ultrasonic Doppler Velocity Profiler for Fluid Flow. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 101. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54026-7_5

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