Dual-camera system for high-speed imaging in particle image velocimetry
Dual-camera system for high-speed imaging in particle image velocimetry
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粒子图像测速中高速成像的双摄像头系统
DOI:
10.1007/s12650-012-0127-0
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
H. Mouri
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作者:
K. Hashimoto;A. Hori;T. Hara;S. Onogi; H. Mouri
Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is an important technique in experimental fluid mechanics to obtain instantaneous fields of the velocity vectors. The fluid is seeded with tracer particles that follow the flow, which are illuminated by a sheet of light. Using a high-speed camera, two successive images of the particles are taken. The displacements of the particles between the two images determine the velocity vectors of the flow [for details, see Raffel et al.(2007); Adrian and Westerweel (2010)]. The interval between times for the two images has to be short, especially when the flow is fast. It has been essential to prepare a high-speed camera. However, the high speed is achieved at the expense of other performances of the camera. Even at the time of writing this paper, the sensitivity remains. ISO 2000 in the color mode and the sensor resolution remains. 4,000 9 3,000. These performances are significantly lower than those of top-end still cameras. Although high-speed cameras are being improved, such a lag behind still cameras does not vanish because they are being improved as well. The high speed also raises the cost of the camera, which prevents some researchers from PIV.We point out that the two images could be taken individually with two still cameras. Even if the cameras are those at low cost, they could achieve the same performance as a standard high-speed camera. More importantly, there is a possibility to be able to make an imaging system that has a higher sensitivity or a higher resolution than any high-speed camera. The idea is simple and is probably not new, but we have found no example that such a system was actually made and used for PIV. This paper is the first demonstration of PIV with two still cameras. The imaging system is described in Sect. 2. An example of the PIV is described in Sect. 3. The remarks are summarized in Sect. 4.