Fluid Measuring System And Fluid Measuring Method
First Claim
1. A fluid measurement system comprising an imaging means for taking images of particles contained in a fluid to be measured at small time intervals, and an image processing means for comparing luminance pattern distributions at a plurality of consecutive time points obtained by said imaging means to measure a moving direction and a moving amount of a particle group, and analyzing a flow field of the fluid to be measured, said imaging means comprising a long focus optical system being of a long distance type capable of imaging a fluid to be measured a long distance away, and said system comprising a turbulence structure extraction means for extracting a turbulence structure of the fluid to be measured from the particle images obtained by said imaging means, wherein said image processing means measures a moving direction and a moving amount of the extracted turbulence structure to analyze the flow field of the fluid to be measured.
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Abstract
To enable detection of flow of a distant fluid to be measured to provide a new application of a PIV system at a practical level.
A fluid measurement system of the present invention includes a long focus optical system 3 at a CCD camera 2, and an image processing means 43 for comparing particle images taken at two time points for analysis. The system further includes a high-pass filter for leaving high frequency components at a predetermined frequency and higher from the luminance signal of the image, so that a turbulence structure occurring in the fluid to be measured is extracted, and the turbulence structure is captured and its image is taken. Therefore, the flow field of an inaccessible fluid to be measured can be analyzed.
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1. A fluid measurement system comprising an imaging means for taking images of particles contained in a fluid to be measured at small time intervals, and an image processing means for comparing luminance pattern distributions at a plurality of consecutive time points obtained by said imaging means to measure a moving direction and a moving amount of a particle group, and analyzing a flow field of the fluid to be measured,
said imaging means comprising a long focus optical system being of a long distance type capable of imaging a fluid to be measured a long distance away, and said system comprising a turbulence structure extraction means for extracting a turbulence structure of the fluid to be measured from the particle images obtained by said imaging means, wherein said image processing means measures a moving direction and a moving amount of the extracted turbulence structure to analyze the flow field of the fluid to be measured.
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9. A fluid measurement method, comprising the steps of:
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taking images of particles contained in a fluid to be measured a long distance away at small time intervals by an imaging means comprising a long focus optical system, comparing luminance pattern distributions of particle images at a plurality of consecutive time points obtained by the imaging means to measure a moving direction and a moving amount of a particle group; and
analyzing a flow field of the fluid to be measured from the moving direction and the moving amount of the particle group, said method comprising the step of extracting a turbulence structure of the fluid to be measured and measuring the moving direction and the moving amount of the extracted turbulence structure to analyze the flow field of the fluid to be measured, when the number of particles contained in one pixel of the particle image obtained by the imaging means is plural. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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