Optical Techniques Applied to Naval and Marine Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Continued and rapid advancement in non-intrusive detailed flow measurement techniques during the last two decades has allowed researchers to investigate complex unsteady and nonlinear flow phenomena involving large unsteady flow structures and has enhanced the understanding of flow physics across many disciplines of hydrodynamics. This is, for example, the case of hydrodynamic research in marine and naval engineering, where optical techniques, such as laser doppler velocimetry (LDV) and, later on, particle image-based velocimetry techniques (e.g., PIV, stereo PIV, and tomographic PIV) have found widespread use and are routinely applied in many hydrodynamic facilities nowadays, including towing tanks and flumes. Given the recent trend, it is expected that these technologies will continue to mature, leading to increasing adoption worldwide.

Hydrodynamic applications of optical techniques range from the survey of rotor and propeller wake flows and installation effects, in naval propulsion and in the renewable energy sector, to the study of sloshing and breaking flows and includes increasingly complex and demanding investigations involving off-design operations, complex maneuvers, and severe ship motions.

In addition, applications of optical techniques have recently gone beyond the hydrodynamic field and have seen a wider and wider use for other, less conventional, measurement types such as body deformation, stress and strain measurements, bubble and nuclei sizing, wave elevation, and sound source diagnostics.            

This Special Issue will be a forum for recent developments and state-of-the-art applications of optical techniques in the field of naval and marine engineering.

Dr. Mario Felli
Guest Editor

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• turbulence
• vortex flows
• detailed flow measurement techniques
• flow–structure interaction
• stress and strain measurements
• deformation measurements
• cavitating and bubbly flows
• laser doppler velocimetry
• particle image velocimetry
• tomographic PIV
• digital image correlation techniques
• photogrammetry