Glare Spot Phase Doppler Anemometry

Camille Hespel (1) , Kuan Fang Ren (1) , Gérard Gréhan (1) , Fabrice R. A. Onofri (2)

1 CORIA - Complexe de recherche interprofessionnel en aérothermochimie
2 IUSTI - Institut universitaire des systèmes thermiques industriels

The Phase Doppler anemometry has been developed to measure simultaneously the velocity and the size of droplets. The measurement of the refractive index is also necessary since it depends on the temperature and the composition of the particle and its measurement permits both to increase the quality of the diameter measurement and to obtain information on the temperature and/or the composition of the droplets. In this paper, we introduce a Glare Spot Phase Doppler Anemometry which uses two large beams. In this case, the images of the particle formed by the reflected and refracted light, known as glare spots, are separated in space. When a particle passes in the probe volume, the two parts in a signal obtained by a detector in forward direction are then separated in time. If two detectors are used the phase differences between two signals, the distance and the intensity ratio of reflected and refracted parts can be obtained and they provide rich information about the particle diameter and its refractive index, as well as its velocity. This paper is devoted to the numerical study of such a configuration with two theoretical models: geometrical optics and rigorous electromagnetism solution.

Mots clés: Phase doppler Anemometry; Glare points; particle imaging; Dual-Burst PDA; refractive index

Domaines: Milieux fluides et réactifs

Camille Hespel, Kuan Fang Ren, Gérard Gréhan, Fabrice R. A. Onofri. Glare Spot Phase Doppler Anemometry. the 5th international symposium on measurement techniques for multiphase Flows, Dec 2006, Macau, China. pp.458-463, ⟨10.1063/1.2747468⟩. ⟨hal-00601968⟩