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A review of computerized tomography with application to two-phase flows

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The technique of computerized tomography (Ct) has established itself as a leading tool in diagnostic radiology over the past twenty years and is catching on fast in the non-destructive evaluation area in a variety of situations.

Ct instrumentation involves a source and a detector system to scan the object of interest. The source can be acoustic, microwave, X-ray, gamma-ray, etc. depending upon the type of material being investigated. For fluid-flows, gamma-rays are quite suitable. There are basically two types of data collection geometries — fan-beam and parallel beam. Fan-beam requires less number of sources as one source feeds several detectors arranged in a fan-beam.

The use ofCt in multi-phase flow studies has been limited presently to only a few laboratory experiments and the results indicate thatCt does hold a lot of promise as an effective investigative methodology to understand some of the complex phenomena encountered in multi-phase flows. Some newCt algorithms developed specifically for pipe-flows have shown good results on some air-water flow data for a 15 cm dia pipe.

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Munshi, P. A review of computerized tomography with application to two-phase flows. Sadhana 15, 43–55 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02753697

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