The objective of this course is to provide young engineers with a broad overview of traditional and advanced measurement techniques applicable to fluid dynamics.

Each measurement technique and its field of application will be described. Limitations and advantages will be discussed and special attention will be given to the subject of error estimation.

A choice of relevant techniques will be demonstrated to groups of five people maximum during lab sessions on Thursday afternoon and Friday in the VKI facilities. This will provide an opportunity to manipulate the available hardware and will allow for discussion of individual problems.This course, prepared and presented by the VKI teaching staff, is based on a long experience with the different techniques for research applications.

Lectures are given by experienced faculty members and research engineers of the von Karman Institute. The Director of this course is Professor Tony Arts of the von Karman Institute.

Monday, 9 October 2017

• 08:45 Registration
• 09:00 Welcome Address
• 09:30 Measurement chain-error and uncertainty
  T. Arts
• 10:20 Amplifiers and filters, etc.
  T.Arts
• 11:00 Coffee break
• 11:30 Pressure measurements
  T.Arts
• 12:20 Lunch
• 14:00 Pressure Probes (cont’d)
  T.Arts
• 14:45 Pressure Probes (cont’d)
  T.Arts
• 15:35 Coffee break
• 16:05 Pressure transducers
  T. Arts
• 17:00 Cocktail

Tuesday, 10 October 2017

• 09:00 Hot wire measurements
  F. Fontaneto
  
• 10:00Hot wire measurements(cont’d)
  F. Fontaneto
  
• 10:50 Coffee break
• 11:15 Temperature measurements (cont’d)
  T. Arts
• 12.05 Lunch
• 13:45 Infrared thermography
  V. Van der Haegen
• 14:45 Hot wire measurements
  M. Carbonaro
• 15:35 Coffee break
• 16:05 Hot wire measurements (cont'd)
  M. Carbonaro

Wednesday, 11 October 2017

• 09:00 Signal processing
  C. Schram
• 10:00 Signal processing (cont’d)
  C. Schram
• 10:50 Coffee break
• 11:15 Flow visualization techniques
  M. Carbonaro
• 12:05 Lunch
• 13:45 Force measurements
  M. Carbonaro
• 14:45 Optical density measurement techniques
  O. Chazot
• 15:35 Coffee break
• 16:05 Spectroscopic measurement techniques
  TBC
• 16:55 End of the day

Thursday, 12 October 2017

• 09:00 Laser Doppler Velocimetry
  TBC
• 10:00 Particle Image Velocimetry
  TBC
• 10:50 Coffee break
• 11:15 Particle Image Velocimetry (cont’d)
  TBC
• 12:05 Lunch
• 13:45 Lab sessions*
• 14:45 Lab sessions*
• 15:35 Coffee break
• 16:05 Lab sessions*
• 16:55 End of the day

Friday, 13 October 2017

• 09:00 Lab sessions*
• 10:50 Coffee break
• 12:05 Lunch
• 13:30 Lab sessions* + Private discussions
• 14:30 End of the Lecture Series

*Lab sessions:

1. LDV (J. Van Beeck)
2. PIV (M.R. Vetrano)
3. Flow visualization (M. Carbonaro)
4. Hot wire measurements ; data acquisition (C. Schram)
5. Schlieren shadowgraph, holographic interferometry (O. Chazot)
6. Thermocouples, thin films, liquid crystals (T. Arts)
7. Steady and unsteady pressure measurements (TBD)
8. Infrared thermography (J.-M. Buchlin)