ISSN:
1013-9826
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The coincidence of vortices generated by a bluff body in a gaseous flow (Karman vortex street) with an ultrasonic beam crossing these vortices raises a lot of questions concerning physics and signal processing. The ultrasonic signal will be complex modulated. The spectrum of the resulted signal shows the carrier frequency of ultrasound and two narrow sidebands with the information about the modulation. For further signal processing the carrier frequency must be filtered. The carrier frequency can be shifted to zero by digital processing and undersampling the signal by an integer multiple. Then the sideband with its low frequency range can be analysed. The real and imaginary parts of the signal can be determined by sampling the signal shifted by 90 degrees (Hilbert transform). Even the 90 degree shifted angle can be measured by undersampling. The sensitivity of the vortex meter depends on the bluff body size. A simple relation between the bluff body dimension and the sensitivity, the vortex frequency, respectively, is shown
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/50/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FKEM.295-296.515.pdf
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