Experimental investigation of turbulent flows

We are developing techniques to obtain particle tracks in high Reynolds number turbulence. These new ultrafast particle tracking methods allow us to make accurate measurements of Lagrangian statistics, which are of great importance both to practical questions of turbulent transport and to fundamental questions about the existence of a universal description of turbulence.

Simple explanation of the project

Project Description

Tiny Blue Cluster
64 processor cluster

particle trajectory danceinturbulence
MOVIE
(4.9MB)
Taylor based Reynolds number : 485
frame rate : 1000fps
area in view : 4x4 cm
particle size 46 microns
Redlake MotionPro camera
lent by DEL Imaging

Contact: Eberhard Bodenschatz