Particle Image Velocimetry: New Developments and Recent Applications

✍ Scribed by Jie Lin, Jean-Marc Foucaut, Jean-Philippe Laval (auth.), Andreas Schroeder, Christian E. Willert (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 485
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics 112
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a non-intrusive optical measurement technique which allows capturing several thousand velocity vectors within large flow fields instantaneously. Today, the PIV technique has spread widely and differentiated into many distinct applications, from micro flows over combustion to supersonic flows for both industrial needs and research. Over the past decade the measurement technique and the hard- and software have been improved continuously so that PIV has become a reliable and accurate method for "real life" investigations. Nevertheless there is still an ongoing process of improvements and extensions of the PIV technique towards 3D, time resolution, higher accuracy, measurements under harsh conditions and micro- and macroscales. This book gives a synopsis of the main results achieved during the EC-funded network PivNet 2 as well as a survey of the state-of-the-art of scientific research using PIV techniques in different fields of application.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
PIV Measurements of Flows in Artificial Heart Valves....Pages 19-33
Overview on PIV Application to Appliances....Pages 245-257
Tomographic 3D-PIV and Applications....Pages 55-72
Overview of PIV in Supersonic Flows....Pages 271-281
Particle Image Velocimetry in Lung Bifurcation Models....Pages 103-125
Recent Developments of PIV towards 3D Measurements....Pages 311-331
Back Matter....Pages 155-170
....Pages 345-361

✦ Subjects

Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices;Fluids;Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering;Physical Chemistry