Particle-streak-velocimetry for room air flows.

This paper presents a measurement technique to perform quantitative visualization of room air flows. The visualization is done by discrete particles, namely helium-filled soap bubbles, illuminated in a plane light sheet generated by a point light source in combination with a special lens. The recording is done stereoscopically with 3 standard cameras by streak photography. The scanned negatives are analysed digitally. The method is able to give the three-dimensional instantaneous velocity field of room air movements, also in real-scale.