Contactless inductive flow tomography in fundamental and applied fluid dynamics

Contactless Inductive Flow Tomography (CIFT) is a flow measurement technique that can reconstruct the global 3D flow in electrically conducting fluids. Knowledge of the flow conditions in liquid metals is of outmost importance for industrial processes as continuous casting of steel. CIFT can also be applied to fundamental research, e.g. to measure convective liquid metal flows. The technique is based on the precise measurement of very small magnetic field changes and the subsequent reconstruction of the flow field by solving the linear inverse problem. This publication illustrates one use-case from fundamental and applied fluid mechanics each.