Ed. Hirleman, HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHASE-DOPPLER PARTICLE-SIZING VELOCIMETER, Particle & particle systems characterization, 13(2), 1996, pp. 59-67
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Materials Science, Characterization & Testing","Engineering, Chemical
The ability to routinely make simultaneous measurements of the size an
d velocity of individual spherical particles is identified as a crucia
l component of advances in the science and technology of multiphase sy
stems and processes. Since it is the dual beam interferometer identifi
ed here as the phase-Doppler particle-sizing velocimeter (PD) that has
provided this capability, and since 1995 marks twenty years from a se
minal paper by Durst and Zare, a historical review is warranted and is
presented. The roots and context of the development of PD are traced
from the days of laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) in the early 1970's t
hrough work culminating at several laboratories in the mid 1980's. A n
umber of important contributions and the engineers and scientists resp
onsible for those contributions are recognized.