LIU Yingling,LI Hu,GUAN Tingfeng,et al.Research on temperature field measurement using Background-oriented schlieren based on hybrid Cross-correlation optical flow algorithm[J].OPTICAL TECHNIQUE,2025,51(06):743-749.
LIU Yingling,LI Hu,GUAN Tingfeng,et al.Research on temperature field measurement using Background-oriented schlieren based on hybrid Cross-correlation optical flow algorithm[J].OPTICAL TECHNIQUE,2025,51(06):743-749.DOI:
Research on temperature field measurement using Background-oriented schlieren based on hybrid Cross-correlation optical flow algorithm
full-field optical measurement technique that has emerged in recent years for the quantitative measurement of temperature fields. The accuracy of background image displacement calculation is critical for the precision of temperature field reconstruction; however
the reconstruction displacement fields obtained by current mainstream hybrid optical flow algorithms lack sufficient accuracy. To address this limitation
a novel hybrid cross-correlation optical flow algorithm is proposed. This method refines the displacement field using Gaussian radial basis function interpolation combined with a gradient constancy assumption-based optical flow algorithm. The proposed approach
integrated with a multi-scale wavelet noise background pattern
was applied to reconstruct the temperature fields above laminar premixed methane/air flames at different equivalence ratios. Comparisons were made with physically based optical flow algorithms and existing hybrid optical flow algorithms. The results demonstrate that the proposed method offers superior accuracy and robustness. Furthermore
it exhibits significant advantages in preserving flow details inherent to thermal flow fields
such as small divergence and vorticity structures
while simultaneously reducing outliers. The relative mean error between the reconstructed temperature values and thermocouple measurements was as low as 2.7%. Experimental results confirm that this method effectively reconstructs high-precision temperature fields.
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