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The following is a report on an experimental technique allowing to quantify and map the velocity field with a very high resolution and a simple equipment in large 2D devices. A simple Shlieren technique is proposed to reinforce the contrast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-22 Johan Paiola , Harold Auradou , Hugues Bodiguel

One of the oldest flow visualization techniques is through multiple pathlines generated by the movement of seeding particles spatially distributed in the flow. In the computerized era, particle images are used in quantitative measurements,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yukun Sun , Elijah James , Frank Fang , Jasper Agrawal , Christopher Dougherty , Cong Wang , Chris Roh

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

A small water tunnel was designed as a table top experiment to visualize and measure basic fluid dynamic phenomena. The visualization of the flow by a laser light sheet and the measurement with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) proves to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-05 William Thielicke , Steffen Risius

Deep learning-based optical flow (DLOF) extracts features in adjacent video frames with deep convolutional neural networks. It uses those features to estimate the inter-frame motions of objects at the pixel level. In this article, we…

We introduce a Scanning Stereoscopic Particle Image velocimetry~(SSPIV) system which incorporates a thin rotating prism to obtain three-dimensional velocity fields in a large cubical measurement volume. The system makes use of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Paul van der Plas , Yutian He , Varghese Mathai

Optical Flow (OF) is the movement pattern of pixels or edges that is caused in a visual scene by the relative motion between an agent and a scene. OF is used in a wide range of computer vision algorithms and robotics applications. While the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Laser light sheet refraction at the fluid flow/window interface is proposed to proceed fluorescent PIV measurements, in particular for cases for which optical access limits the possibilities of illuminating a flow with a planar collimated…

Altered hemodynamics play a key role in cerebrovascular diseases such as aneurysms and stenosis. However, in vivo imaging lacks the spatial resolution required to resolve flow dynamics in small vessels. This study presents an experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Job van Essen , Ahmed Sharaf , Denzel Hopman , Selene Pirola , Paola Fanzio

To date, the iterative image deformation method of PIV for two-pulse measurements is widely used in experimental fluid dynamics due to its robustness in many scientific and industrial applications. However, it has a known limitation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Dinar Zaripov , Renfu Li , Mikhail Tokarev , Dmitriy Markovich

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has become increasingly popular to study structures in turbulent flows. PIV allows direct extraction and investigation of spatial structures in the given flow field. Increasing temporal resolution of PIV…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 Tom T. B. Wester , André Fuchs , Joachim Peinke , Gerd Gülker

In the past decade, advances in electronics technology have made larger imaging sensors available to the experimental fluid mechanics community. These advancements have enabled the measurement of 2-component 2-dimensional (2C-2D) velocity…

The present study reports PIV analysis of the surface flow profile using a smartphone camera in ambient light instead of high-tech equipment like a professional camera and high-power laser/ LEDs. Additionally, it provides a stepwise method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-11 Shailee P Shah , Nayan Mumana , Preksha Barad , Rucha P Desai , Pankaj S Joshi

The existing particle image velocimetry (PIV) do not consider the curvature effect of the non-straight particle trajectory, because it seems to be impossible to obtain the curvature information from a pair of particle images. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yong Lee , Shuang Mei

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Investigation of external flows past arbitrary objects requires access to the information in the boundary layer and the inviscid flow to paint a full picture of their characteristics. However, in laser diagnostic techniques such as particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-09 Shuangjiu Fu , Shabnam Raayai-Ardakani

This work presents a novel combination of two well-established techniques: particle image velocimetry (PIV) and fringe projection profilometry (FPP). Despite seemingly conflicting requirements -- PIV requires a transparent fluid, while FPP…

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

3D Particle Imaging Velocimetry (3D-PIV) aim to recover the flow field in a volume of fluid, which has been seeded with tracer particles and observed from multiple camera viewpoints. The first step of 3D-PIV is to reconstruct the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Katrin Lasinger , Christoph Vogel , Thomas Pock , Konrad Schindler

Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) is widely recognized as a reliable method to measure water surface velocity field in open channels and rivers. LSPIV technique is based on a camera view that frames the water surface in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-15 Benetazzo , A. , Gamba , M. , Barbariol , F