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Particle Image Velocimetry

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The introduction starts with a short summary of the historical background of PIV. Next, the fundamental principles of PIV are briefly explained in an easily understandable manner, so that the reader already becomes aware of the main advantages, problems and limitations of PIV, before starting to read the detailed explanations in the main part of the book. Several major technological milestones of PIV, achieved during the last decades, resulted in its wide-spread use within different areas today. This fact is illustrated taking examples from applications for fundamental research in turbulent flows and for industrial research in large test facilities.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In earlier years other names such as laser speckle velocimetry, particle image displacement velocimetry etc. have been used as well.

  2. 2.

    Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) focuses on single tracer particles (instead of ensembles of tracer particles) and thus requires different evaluation methods as PIV. However, most considerations for the experimental set-up are similar to those for the PIV technique.

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