Article | REF: AF3330 V1

Fluid mechanics - Visualization: introduction

Authors: Jean-Pierre PRENEL, Paul SMIGIELSKI

Publication date: July 10, 1999

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3. Visualization, qualitative or quantitative methods?

In general, physics is not satisfied with a qualitative approach. The question of the "nobility" of visualization methods therefore arose very early on. Quite apart from any controversy, the real question is: what physical quantities can be measured using a visualization image? An initial answer can be found in the work of Reynolds (see historical box): of course, observing a flow of dye in a stream of water and highlighting eddies is eminently qualitative; carefully measuring the characteristic parameters of an observed regime change is already quite quantitative!

Indeed, this apparently insidious question leads to a different way of classifying visualization methods than the phenomenological approach of the previous paragraphs; four main families emerge.

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