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Online: | ISSN 1975-7220 |
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering,
Vol.20, No.4, 601-608, 2003 Two Phase Visualization by Electrical Impedance Tomography with Prior Information
Numerical and experimental work was conducted to develop a visualization technique for the phase distribution in a two-phase flow field with known internal structures by electrical impedance tomography technique, which reconstructs the resistivity distribution with the electrical responses that are determined by corresponding excitations. The finite element method is employed to solve the electrical field induced by the currents through electrodes placed along the boundary and a modified Newton-Raphson iterative method is used to determine the search step minimizing the error between the calculated and the measured voltages at the electrodes. The locations and resisitivities of the known structures are considered as prior information. To mitigate the ill-posedness of inverse problem and to incorporate prior information, the modified Tikhonov regularization technique is employed. Also, with an apparatus developed for impedance imaging this study attempts to reconstruct the images of the simulated bubble distributions and the reconstructed images imply the potential possibility of the electrical impedance tomography for
the two-phase flow visualization.
Keywords:
Image Reconstruction; Electrical Impedance Tomography; Modified Newton-Raphson Method; Internal Structure; Prior Information; Tikhonov Regularization
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