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Main Authors: Thielicke, William, Risius, Steffen
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02147
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author Thielicke, William
Risius, Steffen
author_facet Thielicke, William
Risius, Steffen
contents A small water tunnel was designed as a table top experiment to visualize and measure basic fluid dynamic phenomena. The visualization of the flow by a laser light sheet and the measurement with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) proves to be very instructive for teaching high school and university students. Three basic fluid dynamic experiments are reported: the determination of the vortex shedding frequency of a cylinder (von-Karman vortex street), the measurement of circulation around a flat plate and the lift coefficient of a NACA profile. All three experiments show good agreement with theoretical expectations.
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spellingShingle Educational experiments with Particle Image Velocimetry in a small Prandtl water tunnel
Thielicke, William
Risius, Steffen
Fluid Dynamics
Physics Education
76-05
A small water tunnel was designed as a table top experiment to visualize and measure basic fluid dynamic phenomena. The visualization of the flow by a laser light sheet and the measurement with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) proves to be very instructive for teaching high school and university students. Three basic fluid dynamic experiments are reported: the determination of the vortex shedding frequency of a cylinder (von-Karman vortex street), the measurement of circulation around a flat plate and the lift coefficient of a NACA profile. All three experiments show good agreement with theoretical expectations.
title Educational experiments with Particle Image Velocimetry in a small Prandtl water tunnel
topic Fluid Dynamics
Physics Education
76-05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02147