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Uncertainty quantification for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is critical for comparing flow fields with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results, and model design and validation. However, PIV features a complex measurement chain with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 Lalit K. Rajendran , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sally P. M. Bane , Pavlos P. Vlachos

In Microscopic Particle Image Velocimetry ($\mu$PIV), velocity fields in microchannels are sampled over finite volumes within which the velocity fields themselves may vary significantly. In the past, this has limited measurements often to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 P. W. Bryant , R. F. Neumann , M. J. B. Moura , M. Steiner , M. S. Carvalho , C. Feger

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) estimates velocities through correlations of particle images within interrogation windows, leading to a spatial modulation of the velocity field. Although in principle Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-14 Iacopo Tirelli , Andrea Ianiro , Stefano Discetti

A novel method performing 3D PTV from double frame multi-camera images is introduced. Particle velocities are estimated by following three steps. Firstly, separate particle reconstructions with a sparsity-based algorithm are performed on a…

Velocity errors in particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) are studied. When using high-speed video cameras, the velocity error may increase at a high camera frame rate. This increase in velocity error is due to particle-position uncertainty,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yan Feng , J. Goree , Bin Liu

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a widely used technique for flow measurement that traditionally relies on cross-correlation to track the displacement. Recent advances in deep learning-based methods have significantly improved the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Wei Wang , Jeremiah Hu , Jia Ai , Yong Lee

This article describes two independent developments aimed at improving the Particle Tracking Method for measurements of flow or particle velocities. First, a stereoscopic multicamera calibration method that does not require any optical…

Three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry (3D-PTV) technique is widely used to acquire the complicated trajectories of particles and flow fields. It is known that the accuracy of 3D-PTV depends on the mapping function to reconstruct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-04 Yeonghyeon Gim , Dong Kyu Jang , Dong Kee Sohn , Hyoungsoo Kim , Han Seo Ko

A novel uncertainty-based pressure reconstruction method is proposed to evaluate the instantaneous pressure fields from velocity fields measured using particle image velocimetry (PIV) or particle tracking velocimetry (PTV). First, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-03 Jiacheng Zhang , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Pavlos P. Vlachos

3D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a key technique for analyzing turbulent flow, one of the most challenging computational problems of our century. At the core of 3D PTV is the dual-frame fluid motion estimation algorithm, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yifei Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Zhou Jiang , Hao Zhao

Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is widely used to measure time-resolved, three-dimensional velocity and pressure fields in fluid dynamics research. Inaccurate localization and tracking of particles is a key source of error in PTV,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ke Zhou , Jiaqi Li , Jiarong Hong , Samuel J. Grauer

Two-dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) is a promising technique to study the behaviour of granular flows. The aim is to experimentally determine the free surface width and position of the shear band from the velocity profile to…

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a method to visualize the flows and quantitatively map the flows. It is used to obtain the instantaneous velocity, vorticity, divergence, shear in fluids, etc. Laser Doppler velocimetry and hot wire…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 S. Anand , R. Poovitha , K. Nikhila

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is an imaging technique in experimental fluid dynamics that quantifies flow fields around bluff bodies by analyzing the displacement of neutrally buoyant tracer particles immersed in the fluid. Traditional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alan Bonomi , Francesco Banelli , Antonio Terpin

We introduce a novel end-to-end approach to improving the resolution of PIV measurements. The method blends information from different snapshots without the need for time-resolved measurements on grounds of similarity of flow regions in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-07 Iacopo Tirelli , Andrea Ianiro , Stefano Discetti

In this paper, we propose a microflow velocimetry based on particle tracking with the aid of optical trapping of tracers, namely, optically-trapped particle tracking velocimetry (ot-PTV). The ot-PTV has two phases: a trap phase, in which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-29 Tetsuro Tsuji , Shoma Hashimoto , Satoshi Taguchi

We propose and validate a novel experimental technique to measure two-point statistics of turbulent flows. It consists in spreading rigid fibers in the flow and tracking their position and orientation in time and therefore been named…

An important tool for experimental fluids mechanics research is Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Several robust methodologies have been proposed to perform the estimation of velocity field from the images, however, alternative methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Efraín Magaña , Francisco Sahli Costabal , Wernher Brevis

Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) estimates the flow of fluid by analyzing the motion of injected particles. The problem is challenging as the particles lie at different depths but have similar appearance and tracking a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhong Li , Jinwei Ye , Yu Ji , Hao Sheng , Jingyi Yu

We describe a technique of image analysis providing the time resolved shape of a water surface simultaneously with the three-component velocity field on this surface. The method relies on a combination of stereoscopic surface mapping and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-18 Quentin Aubourg , Joel Sommeria , Samuel Viboud , Nicolas Mordant
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