The formation and evolutionary characteristics of the blade tip vortices generated by a hovering rotor were studied using dual-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry. The dual-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry technique permitted noninvasive measurement of the three components of the velocity field and the nine components of the velocity gradient tensor, a capability not possible with classical particle image velocimetry. The dual-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry method is based on coincident flow measurements made over two differentially spaced laser sheet planes. A polarization-based approach was used in which the two laser sheets were given orthogonal polarizations, with filters and beam-splitting optical cubes placed so that the cameras imaged Mie scattered light from only one or other of the laser sheets. The digital processing of the images ased a deformation grid correlation algorithm that was optimized for the high velocity gradient and small-scale turbulent flows found inside the blade tip vortices. High-resolution flow imaging of the vortex sheet in the wake behind the rotor blade, combined with detailed turbulence measurements, revealed the presence of several turbulent flow features during the vortex roll-up process that appear to play an important role in its final evolution. The dual-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry measurements also included the fluctuating terms involved in the Reynolds-averaged stress transport equations. The results confirm that an isotropic assumption of turbulence is invalid inside blade tip vortices and that stress should not be represented as a linear function of strain. The dual-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry measurements were also compared with velocity and turbulence measurements made using a laser Doppler velocimeter system, with good correlation.


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    Title :

    Turbulent tip vortex measurements using dual-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry


    Additional title:

    Messung der turbulenten Spitzenwirbel mit Hilfe der stereoskopischen Teilchenabbildungs-Geschwindigkeitsmessung in zwei Ebenen


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 47 , 8 ; 1826-1840


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    15 Seiten, 23 Bilder, 67 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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