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VM528 – Experimental Methods in Multiphase Flow
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Credits: 3 credits
Pre-requisites: Vm320, Vm335, Vm495 or permission from instructor
Description:
Multiphase flows play a crucial role in many engineering disciplines and applications, including spray and atomization, solid particle-laden flows, liquid droplet-laden flows, as encountered in engine combustion, pharmaceutical nebulizer, agricultural spraying, spray coating, etc. This course is designed to cover the instrumentation and methodologies for the measurement and data analysis of multiphase flow and processes at the graduate level. It introduces the experimental techniques for measuring a wide variety of multiphase flow and particle technology-related topics such as sprays, aerosols, and droplet dynamics. Experimental methods, including optical and laser diagnostics such as phase Doppler interferometry, laser diffraction, laser induced fluorescence, particle image velocimetry, Schlieren imaging, high speed imaging, and image processing on multiphase flow measurements will be emphasized. In addition, experimental design and planning, sources of errors in measurements, and uncertainty analysis will also be covered in this course.
Course Topics:
Course Ovemiew,Basic Characterization of Multiphase flow
Droplet,atomization and spray
Numericalmethods formultiphase flow
StrategyforExpermentation, Design of Experiments
Statisticalmethods
Data corelation and expermental uncertainty
Imaging Measurements:High Speed lmaging and Schlieren lmaging
Overview ofmeasurement using optical diagnostics
Optical Diagnostic Lab TourSpecial GuestLecture on Optical Diagnostics
VelocityMeasurements:Particle lmage Velocimetry& Hot Wire AnemometryParticle Sizing: Phase Doppler interfermetryand Laser Diffraction Particle SizingConcentrationMeasurements:LaserInduced Fluorescence
AdvancedTopics ofOptical Measurements