Structured light velocimetry for sensing angular velocity
Background
Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) has long been a standard technique in experimental fluid mechanics labs. Researchers in Associate Professor Greg Rieker's lab at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder extend the capabilities of this technique by reshaping the intensity profile of the optical probe beam and by developing a machine learning-based signal processing scheme to analyze the expected signals which can be more complicated than those from LDV.
Technology
The light scattered by a particle passing through a probe beam caries with it a history of the particle’s trajectory through the beam. When the beam is patterned, the scattered light signal is matched with the properties which gave rise to the motion via a machine learning model.
Advantages
- Signal processing technique makes no compromise between spatial and temporal resolution
- Uses readily available seeding particles and requires only a low seeding density
- May function with existing LDV hardware
Applications
- Combustion R&D
- Environmental research
- Flow facilities (wind tunnels, water channels)
- Medical devices
- Microfluidic systems
- Granular flows
What's Next?
This technology is looking for exclusive and non-exclusive licensing.
Nicole Forsberg: nicole.forsberg@colorado.edu
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