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Extracting the Rotational Degrees of Freedom From a Reconstructed Three-Dimensional Velocity Field Along With an Analytical Demonstraton and a Proposed Method for Experimental Verification

Abstract

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A theoretical method for extracting the rotational degrees of freedom from a reconstructed three-dimensional velocity field has been developed. To extract the angular velocities the curl of the translational velocities must be performed. The three-dimensional velocity field is to be equally spaced so that the DFT-IDFT technique of taking partial derivatives of the translational velocities is used. A program was written in C along with MATLAB® which performed the theoretical calculations. Two proposed methods of experimentally verifying the angular velocity data is developed using a Kistler translational/angular piezobeam accelerometer to compare against the DFT-IDFT partial derivative technique for calculating the angular velocities.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Mechanical Engineering
Department dc:contributor.department
Mechanical Engineering
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2001

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • DeVlaminck, James Raymond
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Mitchell, Larry D.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • West, Robert L. Jr.
  • Leo, Donald J.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-07262001-100006
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/34173

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DeVlaminck, James Raymond. Extracting the Rotational Degrees of Freedom From a Reconstructed Three-Dimensional Velocity Field Along With an Analytical Demonstraton and a Proposed Method for Experimental Verification. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34173