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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2001
Stefan Arndt, Stuttgart, DE;
Christian Heinen, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Klaus Reymann, Gerlingen, DE;
Bodo Ruck, Karlsruhe, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device suitable for carrying out the method are proposed for analyzing and quantifying flows, in particular for the three-dimensional determination of flow velocity components or the three-dimensional visualization of flows in fluids or gases. For this purpose, electromagnetic waves, especially light, are detected, which at least partially emanate from or are scattered by particles that are contained in the detection space and that characterize the flow to be analyzed, the waves being detected using at least one detection device, in the form of two-dimensional images that are recorded in a frequency-selective or frequency-band-selective manner, from which the flow is determined. The illuminating device for this purpose generates at least two, at least approximately parallel light sheets, arranged in spatial succession, generated in temporal succession, having electromagnetic waves of different frequencies or different frequency spectrums, which scan the detection space at least in areas.