High Reynolds number experimental lid driven cavity bench
Experimental set-up
The Lid-Driven Cavity (LDC) consists of a 3D cubic or parallelepiped fully confined domain, where the flow is generated by the motion of one of the wall's cavity. The LDC is a fundamentally attractive fluid mechanic configuration as several well-known flow phenomena occur: shear-flow, boundary layers, eddies and core vortex, curved streamlines, Taylor-Görtler-like vortices, etc. Such rich physic has conducted the LDC to be an ideal benchmark for direct numerical simulations methods development and validation.
The LDC experimental bench developed at the LML is powered by a moving band, allowing to achieve high Reynolds numbers and turbulent flow regimes. Measurements are performed using Particles Image Velocimetry (PIV) using a pulsed Nd:Yag to create a laser sheet, combined with a CCD camera. The flow is seeded with Iriodin particles of about 10µm in diameter.
Driven Cavity dynamic illustration
Particule Image Velocimetry Methods
Classical method
The images won't be scaled and two different meshes are used. The Intercorrelation metric is used with FFT and parabolic sub-pixel interpolation. Note that the image is deformed between the two sequences.
method
Speed: 0.81s/images
Results
There is no wrong displacement when a 5x5 median filter is used. If one decreases the size of this filter window, wrong displacement vectors can appear. The vorticity field is quite smooth.
Pyramidal Method
The same mesh is used on the two sequences but the image is scaled.
0.49s/images
method
Results
The results are almost identical as the one using the classical method but there is a 1.7 speed-up which is essential when dealing with thousands of images in a test.
Optical Flow Integrated per Block
Tx and Ty for each ZOI
4.52s/images
method
Results
While the time is multiplied by 5 compared with the classical method, one notes that the vorticity field is quite different. The vorticity field has clear high frequencies that are not caught by the classical method.
Tx,Ty & Rz for each ZOI
One reminds that Rz is the vorticity
46.3s /10 images
method
Results: Vorticity with finite differences
There are no real differences with the field where only Tx and Tz are computed so adding the vorticity does not interfere with the identification of the displacement fields.
Results: Direct Optical Flow measured vorticity
One can note that this field is slightly different from the previous ones, as significant turbulent fluctuations are observed.
The images used herein, the parameters files and the post-processing python script can be downloaded here
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