FLOW VISUALISATION

TECNIQUES
 INTRODUCTION
• WHAT IS FLOW VISUALISATION ?

• NEED OF FLOW VISUALISATION ?

• DIFFERENT TECNIQUES OF FLOW

VISUALISATION.
 NEED OF FLOW VISUALISATION
• TO GET AN IMPRESSION OF FLUID FLOW
WITH OUT ANY CALCULATIONS.

• DEVLOPMENT OF NEW & BETTER THEORIES

OF FLUID FLOW.

• TO VERIFY NEW THEORIES OR MODELS.

 TECHNIQUES
• Smoke flow visualisation
• Dyes flow visualisation
• Surface flow visualisation.
• Photo -catalitic flow visualisation.
 TYPES OF VISUALISATION

• Addition of Foreign Material.

• Addition of Heat & Energy.

• Optical Technique.
Figure 2.1 Visualization with dye to study water flow in a
river model
(Courtesy Delft Hydraulics)
 Oil flow pattern visualizes the skin friction distribution of an axisymmetric model
at incidence in a supersonic flow (Courtesy High-Speed Laboratory, Dept. of Aerospace
Engineering, Delft University of Technology)
 Shadowgraph visualizes the density distribution in the flow around an
axisymmetric model in a supersonic flow (Courtesy High-Speed Laboratory, Dept. of
Aerospace
Engineering, Delft University of Technology)
 FLOW VISUALISATION

• “A Picture is worth thousand a word”

• Behavior of fluid flow can easily recognised by
visulsation.
• Study of Nature of fluid flow without any
calculations.
• Three important parameters to be considred
in addition of foreign particals.
Streakline
Path line
Time line
*Time line & path line can be visualised by direct
injection of foreign particals while streak lines
can be visualised by injecting dyesin fluid.