Abstract:
The invention concerns a device for precisely positioning a measuring probe along a probe axis (A) and in a circular manner relative to this axis. The device has a compact structure owing to the coaxial arrangement of the adjusting units for the rotation and longitudinal displacement of the probe and a step-down gear for reducing the speed of rotation disposed between the adjusting units. A coaxial passage through which the probe shaft can be inserted and moved is also kept free.
Abstract:
A method for determining wind velocity in a region in which a turn is being executed by an aircraft uses a positional detection system to obtain positional data pertaining to the aircraft during execution of the turn (figure 1a), calculates the ground speed vector of the aircraft at a plurality of data points around the turn and determines the wind vector that best fits the ground speed vector data (figure 1b).
Abstract:
The process and device can be used, in particular, for extracting certain parameters from a Doppler signal in ultrasonic medical imaging. The device uses, as an imput parameter, for the calculation of the average frequency the correlation coefficients Im(Cxx) corresponding to the imaginary part of the signal. These coefficients are applied in sequence to a multiplier input (10). The other input receives the weighting coefficients in the form of 0,1/0, 1/π,...,(-1)p+i/πp, where p is the number of weighting coefficients, stored in a register (11). The partial products are accumulated and furnish a representative sum of the average frequency.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of measuring the rate of flow of gaseous or liquid media using ultrasound, and a measuring device suitable for carrying out said process. Known ultrasound measuring devices use pairs of acoustic transmitters and receivers facing each other. The wind-controlled sound velocity in the measured sections is determined by the measurement of operation times or by the measurement of phase displacements in relation to the output signal. Sound velocity is no longer controlled by physical conditions of the wind due to the fact that measurement occurs in alternate directions for which high-grade transmitters/receivers are required. According to the present invention in addition to measurement in at least one measured section the operation time of a signal is determined within a reference section which is connected to the medium and in which there is no flow, but otherwise the conditions are the same as in the medium, and the rate of flow of the medium in each signal direction is derived from the difference of the reciprocal values of the operation times of each measured section and the reference section. The method is suitable for all flow measurements in gaseous or liquid media.
Abstract:
A method for measuring the flow rate of a fluid between two points in a fluid flow, wherein a measurement of the respective propagation times of two acoustic signals transmitted in opposite directions is combined with a measurement of the acoustic phase-shifts respectively induced in each signal, each received signal is sampled and digitised and the corresponding acoustic phase-shift is determined by synchronous detection. The method comprises a series of iterations each of which involves determining a programmable phase-shift dependent on the value of the acoustic phase-shift produced by synchronous detection in the previous iteration, whereby the result of the synchronous detection step in the current iteration is as close to zero as possible, and the acoustic phase-shift is therefore substantially the same as the last programmable phase-shift.
Abstract:
A device for determining the (mean) velocity in a flowing fluid, of the type including an ultrasound transmitter and a receiver coupled therewith for receiving ultrasounds reflected from the fluid, which are amplified and demodulated so as to produce a low-frequency Doppler-signal, that is subsequently analised by a spectrumanalyser, consisting of a number (n) of bandpass filters, peakdetectors being provided to determine the energy values of the frequency components obtained by said bandpassfilters, and a calculation unit being used to calculate that frequency, at which the low-frequency Doppler-signal appears to have a maximum, the latter being a measure for the (mean) flowing velocity. The calculation unit includes components, which are designed to cause the energy values of the individual frequency components of the frequency spectrum to decrease according to a monotonously decreasing correction curve.
Abstract:
Process for fast detection of a wind gradient. This process uses the relationship between the aerodynamic slope a, the total slope T and the anemometric speed V, relationship which may be formulated as follows: (FORMULA) wherein s is the laplacian operator, A is a constant or zero value, in case of normal night without any disturbances, and which rises in case of a wind gradient, head wind becoming down wind, and Vsel is an instruction value. Said value A is mixed with a representative value of the aerodyne capacity to overcome a wind gradient, so as to obtain a composite signal compared to a reference value. The invention may be used during the approach phase of an aerodyne.
Abstract:
The device is designed to position a measuring sensor, especially a sensor head at an angle to the sensor shaft, precisely at the point of measurement and in the direction of a fluid flowing in a test tube, in which there is an adjuster by means of which the measuring sensor in a coaxial arrangement can be adjusted via a first adjusting motor about its axis and/or by a second adjusting motor along its axis; there is a control device communicating with an electronic computer for sensor adjustment; an adjuster coupled to the sensor to rotate in unison therewith has a rotatable pendulum which, in the position of rest transversely to the test tube axis defines the zero position of the sensor; limit positions of the pendulum are predetermined from a relative movement of the adjuster about said axis which can be photometrically converted into position signals, and the computer mathematically halves the angular adjustment calculated from the position signals received and sets the adjuster with the sensor to mechanical zero via the relevant positioning stop commands.
Abstract:
Fluid velocity measurement apparatus which utilises Doppler-shift spectral analysis includes a narrow line width light source (1), the light from which passes through a beam expander (3) to provide an irradiated region, for example a two-dimensional plane, in which velocity measurements may be taken. Light scattered from small particles in the irradiated region is collected in an imaging system (4) which enables spectral analysis of the scattered light for determining the velocity of the light scattering particles in the irradiated region. A single camera (13) is used in the imaging system (4) to obviate the need for costly electronics to synchronise images obtained. Also to improve the accuracy of measurement, selected parameters of the apparatus may be measured (2,5) to allow for perturbations in the velocity measurements obtained.
Abstract:
Portable compact laser Doppler velocimeter which is easy to use and comprises a laser source (1g), a splitter consisting of an opatque objet (6), splitting the beam (1h) from the laser source (1g) into two beams (1l and 1j) focussed by a lense (4f) at the measurement location. The device of the invention is especially suitable for flow measurements of transparent fluids and for teaching applications.