Flow induced ultrasound scattering: Experimental studies

DOI10.1063/1.1697395zbMATH Open1186.76467arXivnlin/0401004OpenAlexW2093072652MaRDI QIDQ3554393FDOQ3554393

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Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Sound scattering by a finite width beam on a single rigid body rotation vortex flow is detected by a linear array of transducers (both smaller than a flow cell), and analyzed using a revised scattering theory. Both the phase and amplitude of the scattered signal are obtained on 64 elements of the detector array and used for the analysis of velocity and vorticity fields. Due to averaging on many pulses the signal-to-noise ratio of the phases difference in the scattered sound signal can be amplified drastically, and the resolution of the method in the detection of circulation, vortex radius, vorticity, and vortex location becomes comparable with that obtained earlier by time-reversal mirror (TRM) method (P. Roux, J. de Rosny, M. Tanter, and M. Fink, {sl Phys. Rev. Lett.} {�f 79}, 3170 (1997)). The revised scattering theory includes two crucial steps, which allow overcoming limitations of the existing theories. First, the Huygens construction of a far field scattering signal is carried out from a signal obtained at any intermediate plane. Second, a beam function that describes a finite width beam is introduced, which allows using a theory developed for an infinite width beam for the relation between a scattering amplitude and the vorticity structure function. Structure functions of the velocity and vorticity fields deduced from the sound scattering signal are compared with those obtained from simultaneous particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements. Good quantitative agreement is found.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0401004

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicsvorticeswater wavesaeroacousticsflow simulationfluid oscillationsultrasonic scatteringconfined flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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