8-electrode capacitance system for two-component flow identification. Part 2: Flow regime identification

Following the first paper on tomographic flow imaging, the authors describe a method for identifying the patterns of two-component flows using the same 8-electrode capacitance system, but using a simpler signal-processing system than that for tomographic reconstruction. The measured capacitance vector of an unknown flow is compared with the stored ‘fingerprint’ vectors of various known flow patterns, and, hence, the actual flow regime can be identified.