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http://dx.doi.org/10.5516/NET.02.2013.038

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE IMAGING OF TWO-PHASE FLOW WITH A MESH GROUPING TECHNIQUE BASED ON PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION  

Lee, Bo An (Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Jeju National University)
Kim, Bong Seok (Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Jeju National University)
Ko, Min Seok (Department of Nuclear and Energy Engineering, Jeju National University)
Kim, Kyung Youn (Department of Electronic Engineering, Jeju National University)
Kim, Sin (Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Jeju National University)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.46, no.1, 2014 , pp. 109-116 More about this Journal
Abstract
An electrical resistance tomography (ERT) technique combining the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm with the Gauss-Newton method is applied to the visualization of two-phase flows. In the ERT, the electrical conductivity distribution, namely the conductivity values of pixels (numerical meshes) comprising the domain in the context of a numerical image reconstruction algorithm, is estimated with the known injected currents through the electrodes attached on the domain boundary and the measured potentials on those electrodes. In spite of many favorable characteristics of ERT such as no radiation, low cost, and high temporal resolution compared to other tomography techniques, one of the major drawbacks of ERT is low spatial resolution due to the inherent ill-posedness of conventional image reconstruction algorithms. In fact, the number of known data is much less than that of the unknowns (meshes). Recalling that binary mixtures like two-phase flows consist of only two substances with distinct electrical conductivities, this work adopts the PSO algorithm for mesh grouping to reduce the number of unknowns. In order to verify the enhanced performance of the proposed method, several numerical tests are performed. The comparison between the proposed algorithm and conventional Gauss-Newton method shows significant improvements in the quality of reconstructed images.
Keywords
Electrical Resistance Tomography; Binary Mixture; Two-phase Flow; Mesh Grouping; Particle Swarm Optimization; Gauss-Newton Method;
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