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A comparison of tracer and PIV results in visualizing water flow around a cylinder close to the free surface

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 Sheridan et al. (1997) have recently published particle-image-velocimetry (PIV) results showing water flow patterns around a cylinder at various values of shallow immersion. These results have been compared with a turbulent-flow tracer study of some of the same flow configurations. In shallow-immersion cylinder comparison tests, the streaklines of the tracer technique offer a virtually identical impression of the principal flow characteristics when compared with the PIV velocity vectors.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, 92182-1323 USA, , , , , , US

    J. W. Hoyt

  2. Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK, , , , , , GB

    R. H. J. Sellin

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Received: 30 March 1998/Accepted: 9 April 1999

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Hoyt, J., Sellin, R. A comparison of tracer and PIV results in visualizing water flow around a cylinder close to the free surface. Experiments in Fluids 28, 261–265 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050386

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