激光诱发荧光漂白测速技术的发展与应用(特邀)

微纳尺度流动现象广泛存在于生命科学、界面科学、微纳芯片技术以及材料科学等领域,微纳流体测速技术是研究微纳尺度流动现象及其应用的基础。本文首先介绍了几种主要的微流体测速技术,包括显微粒子图像速度计、粒子追踪速度计、分子标记速度计、光学相干层析技术、磁共振成像测速技术等。然后,详细介绍一种新型的光学微纳流体速度测量技术——激光诱发荧光漂白测速技术,该技术同时具有非侵入性、远场测速、纳米级高时空分辨率等优点,适应目前微纳流控实际研究中对高时间分辨率和高空间分辨率的迫切需求;重点介绍了基于该技术所取得的一些研究成果,包括对微流体电动力湍流和非线性交流电渗流等非稳态、非线性流动等现象和规律的最新研究成果。最后,对该技术进一步的发展进行了展望。

基于低密度粒子图像叠加的Micro-PIV速度场测量

提出了一种基于低密度粒子图像的微流体粒子图像全场测速技术。经过背景噪声去除、阈值过滤、图像增强等图像预处理过程,获得了高质量的低密度荧光示踪粒子图像。对100对图像进行图像叠加处理,得到了满足互相关算法求解二维速度场的高密度叠加粒子图像。针对宽度为250μm,深60μm的长直微通道开展了覆盖全场不同流体层平面的二维速度测量,并利用多个流体平面的二维速度场实现了微通道内全场速度的构建。研究结果表明:由于图像叠加法去除了像径大但灰度低的背景粒子图像,采用互相关分析能够准确获得分层二维速度场,所构建的全场速度场正确反映了长直微通道内流流场特征。

Experimental Study on Hydrodynamics of L-type Podded Propulsor in Straight-ahead Motion and Off-Design Conditions

Experimental tests were conducted to evaluate the hydrodynamic performance of an L-type podded propulsor in straight-ahead motion and off-design conditions using an open-water measuring instrument developed by the authors for podded propulsors, a ship model towing tank, and under water particle image velocimetry （PIV） measurement systems. Under the three types of conditions, the main parameters of an L-type podded propulsor were measured, including the propeller thrust and torque, as well as the thrust, side force, and moment of the whole pod unit.In addition, the flow field on the section between the propeller and the strut was analyzed. Experimental results demonstrate that the dynamic azimuthing rate and direction and the turning direction affect the forces on the propeller and the whole pod unit. Forces are asymmetrically distributed between the left and right azimuthing directions because of the effect of propeller rotation. The findings of this study provide a foundation for further research on L-type podded propulsors.

Effects of the Blade Shape on the Trailing Vortices in Liquid Flow Generated by Disc Turbines

Particle image velocimetry technique was used to analyze the trailing vortices and elucidate their rela-tionship with turbulence properties in a stirred tank of 0.48 m diameter,agitated by four different disc turbines,in-cluding Rushton turbine,concaved blade disk turbine,half elliptical blade disk turbine,and parabolic blade disk turbine.Phase-averaged and phase-resolved flow fields near the impeller blades were measured and the structure of trailing vortices was studied in detail.The location,size and strength of vortices were determined by the simplified λ2-criterion and the results showed that the blade shape had great effect on the trailing vortex characteristics.The larger curvature resulted in longer residence time of the vortex at the impeller tip,bigger distance between the upper and lower vortices and longer vortex life,also leads to smaller and stronger vortices.In addition,the turbulent ki-netic energy and turbulent energy dissipation in the discharge flow were determined and discussed.High turbulent kinetic energy and turbulent energy dissipation regions were located between the upper and lower vortices and moved along with them.Although restricted to single phase flow,the presented results are essential for reliable de-sign and scale-up of stirred tank with disc turbines.

A single camera volumetric particle image velocimetry and its application

Volumetric particle image velocimetry(VPIV) refers to a PIV-based technique which can obtain full velocity components in a three-dimensional measurement volume.A new VPIV method with a single lens was developed.A three-vision prism was used to make viewing from different angles using one camera.The technique was tested and successfully applied to a three-dimensional three-component(3D3C) measurement of a zero-net-mass-flux jet flow.The accuracy of the measurement was investigated,specifically in steps of calibration,self-calibration and particle triangulation.Time sequence of a vortex ring development was presented.It was shown that the measurement has high accuracy with validation rate of velocity vector reaching about 95%.The flow with vortex ring passing the measurement volume was studied using both swirl strength and vorticity magnitude criteria.Through comparison,the swirl criterion was found to be superior to the criterion of vorticity in differentiating the rotation motion and the free shear.

PIV measurement on internal instantaneous flows of a centrifugal pump

In this paper,the internal flow field in a centrifugal pump working at the design flow rate operating condition has been measured using the particle image velocimetry(PIV)technique with the fluorescent particles and the index-matched fluid technology.The index-marching fluid with the same refractive index as the transparent material has been prepared and applied in the present test of pump with geometrical complex walls.The comparison between velocity distributions of PIV results both with and without fluorescent particles,as well as with and without index-marching fluid are conducted to find the differences.The DES(Detached Eddy Simulation)has been employed to calculate the three-dimensional unsteady turbulent flow in the pump to examine and to certify the PIV measurement results.The DES results of instantaneous flow velocity fields agree with PIV test results with fluorescent particles and index-marching fluid.It is necessary to perform the PIV measurement of pumps with fluorescent seeds and index-marching fluid in order to get exact results.The experimental results show the distributions of velocity,steamlines,and the principal Reynolds normal stress(PRNS)and the principal Reynolds shear stress(PRSS).