Designing It Smart With SIV

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Overview

Digital Interface Systems (DIS), Inc., acquired an exclusive license to market Glenn Research Center's Stereo Imaging Velocimetry (SIV), the world's first 3-D, full-field quantitative and qualitative analysis tool to investigate flow velocities. SIV's applications range from improving the aerodynamics of aircraft and automobiles to avoiding no flow" regions in artificial hearts. SIV is a safe affordable means to obtain 3-D flow information from any transparent liquid that can be seeded with tracer particles. It applies to the study of multiphase flow bubble nucleation and migration pool combustion and crystal growth. SIV also helps create more efficient heating ventilating and air conditioning systems as well as quieter airflow within auto heating and cooling ducts. It has been used in the steel industry to quantify the continuous casting process the vacuum cleaner industry to observe brushroll designs and in the sporting goods industry to investigate the bat-ball impact phenomenon of softball bats. SIV is available through DIS as an on-demand World Wide Web deployable program or as a mini-compact disc version."