Development and application of a high speed digital data acquisition technique to study steam bubble collapse using particle image velocimetry.

摘要

The use of a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) method, which uses digital cameras for data acquisition, for studying high speed fluid flows is usually limited by the digital camera's frame acquisition rate. The velocity of the fluid under study has to be limited to insure that the tracer seeds suspended in the fluid remain in the camera's focal plane for at least two consecutive images. However, the use of digital cameras for data acquisition is desirable to simplify and expedite the data analysis process. A technique was developed which will measure fluid velocities with PIV techniques using two successive digital images and two different framing rates simultaneously. The first part of the method will measure changes which occur to the flow field at the relatively slow framing rate of 53.8 ms. The second part will measure changes to the same flow field at the relatively fast framing rate of 100 to 320 (mu)s. The effectiveness of this technique was tested by studying the collapse of steam bubbles in a subcooled tank of water, a relatively high speed phenomena. The tracer particles were recorded and velocity vectors for the fluid were obtained far from the steam bubble collapse.