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BSA Flow Software Installation and User's Guide - CSI

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7.2.1 Basic principles of phase Doppler anemometry............................................................. 7-21<br />

7.2.2 The concept of the DualPDA ......................................................................................... 7-30<br />

7.2.3 Light scattering from small particles.............................................................................. 7-34<br />

7.2.4 Implementing PDA principles <strong>and</strong> the DualPDA concept ............................................. 7-44<br />

7.3 Setting up a PDA system ..................................................................................................... 7-50<br />

7.3.1 General ........................................................................................................................... 7-50<br />

7.3.2 Optimizing measurement conditions for FiberPDA systems......................................... 7-64<br />

7.3.3 Optimizing measurement conditions for DualPDA systems.......................................... 7-66<br />

7.4 Configuring the PDA receiving <strong>and</strong> transmitting optics ..................................................... 7-72<br />

7.4.1 Setting the polarization................................................................................................... 7-72<br />

7.4.2 Configuring the PDA receiving optics ........................................................................... 7-73<br />

7.5 Connecting the PDA Detector Unit ..................................................................................... 7-76<br />

7.5.1 The FiberPDA Detector Unit ......................................................................................... 7-77<br />

7.5.2 The DualPDA Detector Unit .......................................................................................... 7-78<br />

7.5.3 Changing interference filters.......................................................................................... 7-78<br />

7.5.4 Configuring the DualPDA system in FiberPDA system ................................................ 7-78<br />

7.6 A guide to define the PDA optical configuration: ............................................................... 7-79<br />

7.7 Catalogue of some common particles.................................................................................. 7-82<br />

7.7.1 How to read the scattering charts ................................................................................... 7-82<br />

7.7.2 Water droplet in air ........................................................................................................ 7-84<br />

7.7.3 Air bubble in water......................................................................................................... 7-86<br />

7.7.4 Air bubble in freon ......................................................................................................... 7-87<br />

7.7.5 Droplet of diesel oil or silica spheres in air.................................................................... 7-88<br />

7.7.6 Bubble of air in diesel oil ............................................................................................... 7-89<br />

7.7.7 Glass sphere in air .......................................................................................................... 7-90<br />

7.7.8 Glass sphere in water...................................................................................................... 7-91<br />

7.7.9 Latex sphere in air.......................................................................................................... 7-92<br />

7.7.10 Latex sphere in water ................................................................................................. 7-93<br />

7.7.11 Data analysis .............................................................................................................. 7-94<br />

7.8 Optical transform................................................................................................................. 7-96<br />

7.8.1 General 3D setup............................................................................................................ 7-96<br />

7.8.2 Example: Symmetrical 3D setup.................................................................................... 7-97<br />

7.8.3 Example: 3D setup with 2D probe axis aligned with w ................................................. 7-97<br />

7.9 Moments (one-time statistics).............................................................................................. 7-99<br />

7.9.1 Weighting factor............................................................................................................. 7-99<br />

7.9.2 Arithmetic Mean diameter............................................................................................ 7-100<br />

7.9.3 Statistical data acquisisiton stop criteria from LDA data............................................. 7-101<br />

7.10 Histograms ................................................................................................................... 7-106<br />

7.10.1 Velocity histogram ................................................................................................... 7-106<br />

7.10.2 Size histogram.......................................................................................................... 7-107<br />

7.10.3 Curve fitting for histograms ..................................................................................... 7-109<br />

7.11 Mean diameters <strong>and</strong> algorithms for concentration <strong>and</strong> flux measurements (Diameter<br />

statistics) 7-110<br />

7.11.1 Mean diameters (diameter statistics object) ............................................................. 7-110<br />

7.11.2 Flux <strong>and</strong> concentration algorithms........................................................................... 7-112<br />

7.11.3 Probe Volume Correction (PVC) ............................................................................. 7-120<br />

7.12 Spectral analysis (two-time statistics) .......................................................................... 7-121<br />

8. Trouble shooting ....................................................................................................................... 8-1<br />

8.1 <strong>Installation</strong> ............................................................................................................................. 8-1<br />

8.1.1 I get error messages trying to run sample projects........................................................... 8-1<br />

8.2 <strong>BSA</strong> F/P connection cannot be established ........................................................................... 8-1<br />

8.2.1 Find Dantec processors .................................................................................................... 8-1<br />

8.2.2 Peer-to-Peer Configuration .............................................................................................. 8-4<br />

8.3 PDA ....................................................................................................................................... 8-5<br />

8.3.1 Calibration (PDA only) .................................................................................................... 8-5<br />

8.3.2 Phase plot ......................................................................................................................... 8-7<br />

8.4 The traverse system does not move when it should............................................................. 8-10<br />

<strong>BSA</strong> <strong>Flow</strong> <strong>Software</strong>: General 1-5

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