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Ultrasonic tomographic imaging of temperature and flow fields in gases using air-coupled capacitance transducers
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UNSPECIFIED (1998) Ultrasonic tomographic imaging of temperature and flow fields in gases using air-coupled capacitance transducers. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 104 (6). pp. 3446-3455. ISSN 0001-4966.
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Abstract
A pair of air-coupled ultrasonic capacitance transducers with polished metal backplates have been used to image temperature and Bow fields in gases using ultrasonic tomography. Using a filtered back-projection algorithm and a difference technique, cross-sectional images of spatially variant changes in ultrasonic attenuation and slowness caused by the presence of temperature and Bow fields were reconstructed. Temperature fields were produced in air by a commercial soldering iron, and the subsequent images of slowness variations used to reconstruct the air temperature at various heights above the iron. When compared to measurements made with a thermocouple, the tomographically reconstructed temperatures were found to be accurate to within 5%. The technique was also able to resolve multiple heat sources within the scan area. Attenuation and Velocity images were likewise produced for flow fields created by an air-jet from a l-mm-diam nozzle, at both 90 and 45 degrees to the scanning plane. The fact that temperature and flow fields can be measured in a gas without the need to insert any measuring devices into the image region is an advantage that may have many useful applications. (C) 1998 Acoustical Society of America. [S0001-4966(98)00412-3].
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA | ||||
Publisher: | AMER INST PHYSICS | ||||
ISSN: | 0001-4966 | ||||
Official Date: | December 1998 | ||||
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Volume: | 104 | ||||
Number: | 6 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 3446-3455 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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