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Quantitative flow visualization: toward a comprehensive flow diagnostic tool.

Mory Gharib·Francisco Pereira·Dana Dabiri·Darius Modarress
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Quantitative flow visualization has many roots and has taken several approaches. The advent of digital image processing has made it practical to extract useful information from every kind of flow image. In a direct approach, the image intensity or color (wavelength or frequency) can be used as an indication of concentration, density and temperature field, or gradients of these scalar fields in the flow.(1) For whole-field velocity measurement, the method of choice for experimental fluid mechanicians has been digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV). This paper presents a novel approach to extend the DPIV technique from a planar method to a full three-dimensional volume mapping technique.

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Mory Gharib, Francisco Pereira, Dana Dabiri, Darius Modarress. 2002. Quantitative flow visualization: toward a comprehensive flow diagnostic tool.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04546.x

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