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Sensors 2008, 8, 7596-7608; DOI: 10.3390/s8127596 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Planar Pressure Field Determination in the Initial Merging Zone of an Annular Swirling Jet Based on Stereo-PIV Measurements Maarten Vanierschot and Eric Van den Bulck Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium E-mails: Maarten.Vanierschot@mech.kuleuven.be; Eric.VandenBulck@mech.kuleuven.be Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Received: 31 October 2008; in revised form: 17 November 2008 / Accepted: 26 November 2008 / Published: 28 November 2008 Abstract: In this paper the static pressure field of an annular swirling jet is measured in- directly using stereo-PIV measurements. The pressure field is obtained from numerically solving the Poisson equation, taken into account the axisymmetry of the flow. At the bound- aries no assumptions are made and the exact boundary conditions are applied. Since all source terms can be measured using stereo-PIV and the boundary conditions are exact, no assump- tions other than axisymmetry had to be made in the calculation of the pressure field. The advantage of this method of indirect pressure measurement is its high spatial resolution com- pared to the traditional pitot probes. Moreover this method is non-intrusive while the insertion of a pitot tube disturbs the flow. It is shown that the annular swirling flow can be divided into three regimes: a low, an intermediate and a high swirling regime. The pressure