The need for precision non-intrusive optical measurements of single and multiphase flows often arises in a broad range of fundamental and applied research areas. Below is a short list of areas and tasks where application of modern measurement techniques is crucial.
- Aircraft engineering – aerodynamics, foil design, turbomachinery cooling, supersonic flows;
- Energy engineering and power saving – aerodynamics simulation of combustion chambers, separators, fuel and oxygen mixing, coil burning, process simulation in gas-turbine systems;
- Motor-vehicle construction – motor vehicle aerodynamics, drag reducing, flows inside passenger compartment and engine body, investigation of combustion in cylinders;
- Medicine and biotechnologies – inhalators, prosthetic valves, simulation of blood flow in vessels, micro electromechanical systems (MEMS);
- Geosciences – simulation of erosion processes, ice formation, investigation of atmosphere, weather, contamination propagation;
- Fluid mechanics – turbulent jets, boundary layers, vortex flows, heat- and mass- transfer in single and multiphase flows;
- Hydraulics, industrial aerodynamics, chemical industry processes – simulation of flows in pumps and channels, cavitation prevention, heat exchangers, chemical microreactors, flows around buildings, bridges, etc.
