The assembly of freely moving rigid fibers measures the flow gradient tensor
arXiv:1908.04072 · doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.288
Abstract
The motion of an assembly of rigid fibers is investigated for different classes of closed streamline flows, steady or time dependent, two dimensional or three dimensional. In our study, the dynamics of the fiber assembly is fully-coupled to the flow field by means of a state-of-the-art immersed boundary method. We show that, for sufficiently small Stokes times of the assembly, the whole flow gradient tensor can be accurately reconstructed by simply tracking the fiber assembly and measuring suitable fiber velocity differences evaluated at the fiber ends. Our results strongly suggest the possibility of using rigid fibers (or assemblies of them) to perform multi-point flow measures, either in laboratory or in field: future experiments are therefore mandatory to inquire the feasibility of a new `Fiber Tracking Velocimetry' technique.
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