PIVlab – Towards User-friendly, Affordable and Accurate Digital Particle Image Velocimetry in MATLAB
Author(s) -
William Thielicke,
Eize J. Stamhuis
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of open research software
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2049-9647
DOI - 10.5334/jors.bl
Subject(s) - particle image velocimetry , smoothing , computer science , interpolation (computer graphics) , user friendly , matlab , velocimetry , estimator , computer vision , pixel , computer graphics (images) , flow (mathematics) , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , mathematics , optics , physics , statistics , turbulence , thermodynamics , operating system , geometry
Digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) is a non-intrusive analysis technique that is very popular for mapping flows quantitatively. To get accurate results, in particular in complex flow fields, a number of challenges have to be faced and solved: The quality of the flow measurements is affected by computational details such as image pre-conditioning, sub-pixel peak estimators, data validation procedures, interpolation algorithms and smoothing methods. The accuracy of several algorithms was determined and the best performing methods were implemented in a user-friendly open-source tool for performing DPIV flow analysis in Matlab
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