Advances in the Measurement and Application of Particle Tracking
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Physics General".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 5871
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied nuclear physics; radiation metrology; tertiary physics education
Interests: positron emission particle tracking (PEPT); granular and multiphase flow characterization; nuclear electronics and instrumentation; radiation measurement; applications of isotopes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to the scientific development and application of particle tracking technologies that are predominantly utilized in the study of dynamic systems, such as granular, multiphase, and turbulent flows. A class of diverse and often complementary techniques exist to interrogate these systems, often based on hard field measurements (positron emission particle tracking and derivatives, radioactive particle tracking, X- and gamma-ray, neutron transmission imaging and/or tomography, etc.), optical techniques (particle image velocimetry, particle tracking velocimetry, etc.), and traditional tracer tracking methodologies.
Applications of particle tracking are as widespread as the flow phenomena themselves, ranging from fundamental scientific interest; civil and mechanical engineering; industrially relevant flows in minerals processing, pharmaceuticals, and food processing; and towards biomedical applications. The broader scientific use of these techniques extends to the validation and benchmarking of computational flow models including discrete element method and computational fluid dynamics calculations.
Contributions in the following key themes are invited:
- Advances in particle tracking measurement;
- Novel particle tracking methodologies;
- Multi-modal or complimentary particle tracking and flow measurements;
- Benchmarking and validation of particle tracking techniques and models;
- Particle tracking in numerical simulation;
- Applications of particle tracking measurement and simulation.
Combined measurement and/or computational approaches are welcomed. Focus will be placed on articles describing novel problems or applications where particle tracking offers a potential step change in fundamental understanding, advances in particle tracking techniques that are disruptive with demonstrable impact in the field, and those which are future-facing towards the next state of the art.
Prof. Dr. Andy Buffler
Dr. Tom Leadbeater
Dr. Lianfu Han
Guest Editors
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