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A Measure of Flow Vorticity with Helical Beams of Light
Optics · Submitted 28 Jul 2015
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The authors' main claim We found from a detailed analysis of the experimental method that probing the fluid with LG beams is an effective and simple sensing technique capable to produce accurate estimates of flow vorticity.
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Vorticity describes the spinning motion of a fluid, i.e., the tendency to rotate, at every point in a flow. The interest in performing accurate and localized measurements of vorticity reflects the fact that many of the quantities that characterize the dynamics of fluids are intimately bound together in the vorticity field, being an efficient descriptor of the velocity statistics in many flow regimes. It describes the coherent structures and vortex interactions that are at the leading edge of laminar, transitional, and turbulent flows in nature. The measurement of vorticity is of paramount importance in many research fields as diverse as biology microfluidics, complex motions in the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers, and wake turbulence on fluid aerodynamics. However, the precise measurement of flow vorticity is difficult. Here we put forward an optical sensing technique to obtain a direct measurement of vorticity in fluids using Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams, optical beams which show an azimuthal phase variation that is the origin of its characteristic non-zero orbital angular momentum. The key point is to make use of the transversal Doppler effect of the returned signal that depends only on the azimuthal component of the flow velocity along the ring-shaped observation beam. We found from a detailed analysis of the experimental method that probing the fluid with LG beams is an effective and simple sensing technique capable to produce accurate estimates of flow vorticity.
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| s0 | Vorticity describes the spinning motion of a fluid, i.e., the tendency to rotate, at every point in a flow. | background 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | The interest in performing accurate and localized measurements of vorticity reflects the fact that many of the quantities that characterize the dynamics of fluids are intimately bound together in the vorticity field, being an efficient descriptor of the velocity statistics in many flow regimes. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | It describes the coherent structures and vortex interactions that are at the leading edge of laminar, transitional, and turbulent flows in nature. | background 1.00 | 0.05 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | The measurement of vorticity is of paramount importance in many research fields as diverse as biology microfluidics, complex motions in the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers, and wake turbulence on fluid aerodynamics. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | However, the precise measurement of flow vorticity is difficult. | gap 0.74 | 0.05 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | Here we put forward an optical sensing technique to obtain a direct measurement of vorticity in fluids using Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams, optical beams which show an azimuthal phase variation that is the origin of its characteristic non-zero orbital angular momentum. | contribution 0.75 | 0.87 | 0.18 | asserted 0.91 |
| s6 | The key point is to make use of the transversal Doppler effect of the returned signal that depends only on the azimuthal component of the flow velocity along the ring-shaped observation beam. | method 0.99 | 0.53 | 0.08 | asserted 1.00 |
| s7 | We found from a detailed analysis of the experimental method that probing the fluid with LG beams is an effective and simple sensing technique capable to produce accurate estimates of flow vorticity. | result 0.76 | 0.96 | 0.89 | asserted 1.00 |
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Vorticity describes the spinning motion of a fluid, i.e., the tendency to rotate, at every point in a flow. The interest in performing accurate and localized measurements of vorticity reflects the fact that many of the quantities that characterize the dynamics of fluids are intimately bound together in the vorticity field, being an efficient descriptor of the velocity statistics in many flow regimes. It describes the coherent structures and vortex interactions that are at the leading edge of laminar, transitional, and turbulent flows in nature. The measurement of vorticity is of paramount importance in many research fields as diverse as biology microfluidics, complex motions in the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers, and wake turbulence on fluid aerodynamics. However, the precise measurement of flow vorticity is difficult. Here we put forward an optical sensing technique to obtain a direct measurement of vorticity in fluids using Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams, optical beams which show an azimuthal phase variation that is the origin of its characteristic non-zero orbital angular momentum. The key point is to make use of the transversal Doppler effect of the returned signal that depends only on the azimuthal component of the flow velocity along the ring-shaped observation beam. We found from a detailed analysis of the experimental method that probing the fluid with LG beams is an effective and simple sensing technique capable to produce accurate estimates of flow vorticity.
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