Description
Turbulent convection, and thermal flows, remain interesting areas of study due to the presence of
complex structures and multiscale coupling. Advances in experimental methods have rapidly improved measurable
quantities of convective flows systems, and expanded the range of parameters that are accessible. Lagrangian
Particle Tracking is among other optical measurement techniques that have gained considerable momentum in the
last few decades with rapid development of imaging systems and computational capabilities and replaced
point-based measurement of flow quantities to some extent. In this presentation I will present our recent attempts to
expand the traditional Lagrangian Particle Tracking methodology to simultaneously detect the Lagrangian
temperature. In this work, we have found that one such promising experimental method is a temperature
measurement based on the application of thermochromic liquid crystals.
