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- This article is about flow seeding. For uses, see Seed (disambiguation).
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Flow around a sphere being visualized by seeding the flow with smoke.
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Visualization of hairpin vortex structure, made visible by seeding the flow with colored dye.
In fluid dynamics, seeding a flow, or a seeded flow, means to introduce particulates or other foreign substances into an otherwise transparent stream of fluid. These particulates are generally small enough to be carried by the fluid but large enough to be picked up using a flow visualization technique, such as particle image velocimetry (PIV). In reference to aerodynamic testing, such as wind tunnel testing, water tunnel testing, or any other test investigating the flow of a fluid which may be invisible to the naked eye, seeding a flow is often the only way to take visual measurements. Simple examples of a seeded flow include the introduction of smoke into a low speed wind tunnel to see the general path of the air, or injecting colored dye into a water tunnel to see secondary flow structures such as hairpin vorticies.
See also
Seed, seeds or seeding may refer to:
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- Seed, an encased plant embryo
- SEEDS, a non-governmental organization
- A poetic term for sperm
- Bija, literally "seed", a metaphor for the origin or cause of things
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Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is an optical method used to measure velocities and related properties in fluids. The fluid is seeded with particles which, for the purposes of PIV, are generally assumed to faithfully follow the flow dynamics.
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In fluid dynamics it is critically important to see the patterns produced by flowing fluids, in order to understand them. We can appreciate this on several levels: Most fluids (air, water, etc.
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