TY - JOUR

T1 - Pressure evaluation from Lagrangian particle tracking data using a grid-free least-squares method

AU - Bobrov, Maxim

AU - Hrebtov, Mikhail

AU - Ivashchenko, Vladislav

AU - Mullyadzhanov, Rustam

AU - Seredkin, Alexander

AU - Tokarev, Mikhail

AU - Zaripov, Dinar

AU - Dulin, Vladimir

AU - Markovich, Dmitriy

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/8

Y1 - 2021/8

N2 - The Lagrangian particle tracking shake-the-box (STB) method provides accurate evaluation of the velocity and acceleration of particles from time-resolved projection images for high seeding densities, giving an opportunity to recover the stress tensor. In particular, their gradients are required to estimate local pressure fluctuations from the Navier-Stokes equations. The present paper describes a grid-free least-squares method for gradient and pressure evaluation based on irregularly scattered Lagrangian particle tracking data with minimization of the random noise. The performance of the method is assessed on the basis of synthetic images of virtual particles in a wall-bound turbulent flow. The tracks are obtained from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of an initially laminar boundary layer flow around a hemisphere mounted on a flat wall. The Reynolds number based on the sphere diameter and free stream velocity is 7000, corresponding to a fully turbulent wake. The accuracy, based on the exact tracks and STB algorithm, is evaluated by a straightforward comparison with the DNS data for different values of particle concentration up to 0.2 particles per pixel. Whereas the fraction of particles resolved by the STB algorithm decreases with the seeding density, limiting its spatial resolution, the exact particle positions demonstrate the efficiency of the least-squares method. The method is also useful for extraction of large-scale vortex structures from the velocity data on non-regular girds.

AB - The Lagrangian particle tracking shake-the-box (STB) method provides accurate evaluation of the velocity and acceleration of particles from time-resolved projection images for high seeding densities, giving an opportunity to recover the stress tensor. In particular, their gradients are required to estimate local pressure fluctuations from the Navier-Stokes equations. The present paper describes a grid-free least-squares method for gradient and pressure evaluation based on irregularly scattered Lagrangian particle tracking data with minimization of the random noise. The performance of the method is assessed on the basis of synthetic images of virtual particles in a wall-bound turbulent flow. The tracks are obtained from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of an initially laminar boundary layer flow around a hemisphere mounted on a flat wall. The Reynolds number based on the sphere diameter and free stream velocity is 7000, corresponding to a fully turbulent wake. The accuracy, based on the exact tracks and STB algorithm, is evaluated by a straightforward comparison with the DNS data for different values of particle concentration up to 0.2 particles per pixel. Whereas the fraction of particles resolved by the STB algorithm decreases with the seeding density, limiting its spatial resolution, the exact particle positions demonstrate the efficiency of the least-squares method. The method is also useful for extraction of large-scale vortex structures from the velocity data on non-regular girds.

KW - Lagrangian particle tracking

KW - pressure evaluation

KW - Uncertainty quantification

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106999776&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1088/1361-6501/abf95c

DO - 10.1088/1361-6501/abf95c

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85106999776

VL - 32

JO - Measurement Science and Technology

JF - Measurement Science and Technology

SN - 0957-0233

IS - 8

M1 - 084014

ER -