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This article presents a flow visualization method for wind-waves, as well as a technique to measure flow field on two sides of interface by stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) simultaneously. The new flow visualization method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-23 Junwei Chen

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is essential in experimental fluid dynamics. In the current work, we propose a new velocity field estimation paradigm, which achieves a synergetic combination of the deep learning method and the traditional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-12 Qi Gao , Hongtao Lin , Han Tu , Haoran Zhu , Runjie Wei , Guoping Zhang , Xueming Shao

In this paper, we overview, evaluate, and demonstrate the sparse processing particle image velocimetry (SPPIV) as a real-time flow field estimation method using the particle image velocimetry (PIV), whereas SPPIV was previously proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Naoki Kanda , Chihaya Abe , Shintaro Goto , Keigo Yamada , Kumi Nakai , Yuji Saito , Keisuke Asai , Taku Nonomura

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

Humans possess an exceptional ability to imagine 4D scenes, encompassing both motion and 3D geometry, from a single still image. This ability is rooted in our accumulated observations of similar scenes and an intuitive understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Emily Yue-Ting Jia , Jiageng Mao , Zhiyuan Gao , Yajie Zhao , Yue Wang

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

Particle flows of high particle concentration are important in many fields, including chemical processing, pharmaceutical processing, energy conversion and powder transport. However, despite decades of research and industrial application,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-06 Frank Shaffer , Balaji Gopalan

In this work, we use the standard deviation of image pixel intensity to analyse the speed, direction and surface-interaction of microparticles in fluid. First, we present an analytical model for estimating the total variance in the image…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Harish Sasikumar , Manoj M. Varma

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

Neural optical flow (NOF) offers improved accuracy and robustness over existing OF methods for particle image velocimetry (PIV). Unlike other OF techniques, which rely on discrete displacement fields, NOF parameterizes the physical velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Andrew I. Masker , Ke Zhou , Joseph P. Molnar , Samuel J. Grauer

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 Image Velocimetry (PIV) is fundamental to fluid dynamics, yet deep learning applications face significant hurdles. A critical gap exists: the lack of comprehensive evaluation of how diverse optical flow models perform specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zicheng Lin , Xiaoqiang Li , Yichao Wang , Chuang Zhu

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

We present a novel architecture for accelerating PIV calculations. An optical flow hardware accelerator does the brunt of the work, with cross-correlation only providing quick corrections. The result is RapidPIV: a free-to-download software…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-28 Scott A. Bollt , Samuel H. Foxman , Morteza Gharib

Fluid simulation is an important research topic in computer graphics (CG) and animation in video games. Traditional methods based on Navier-Stokes equations are computationally expensive. In this paper, we treat fluid motion as point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yu Chen , Shuai Zheng , Nianyi Wang , Menglong Jin , Yan Chang

This paper deals with determination of turbulent convection velocities from particle image velocimetry (PIV). Turbulent convection velocities are of interest because they can be used to map temporal information into space. Convection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-26 Roeland de Kat , Lian Gan , James R Dawson , Bharathram Ganapathisubramani

Optical flow, which expresses pixel displacement, is widely used in many computer vision tasks to provide pixel-level motion information. However, with the remarkable progress of the convolutional neural network, recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ruibing Jin , Guosheng Lin , Changyun Wen , Jianliang Wang , Fayao Liu

In this work, we propose a framework whereby flow imaging data is leveraged to extract relevant information from flowfield visualizations. To this end, a vision transformer (ViT) model is developed to predict the unsteady pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Renato F. Miotto , William R. Wolf

We propose a method using supervised machine learning to estimate velocity fields from particle images having missing regions due to experimental limitations. As a first example, a velocity field around a square cylinder at Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-09 Masaki Morimoto , Kai Fukami , Koji Fukagata

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have shown great potential in the context of fluid dynamics simulations, particularly in reconstructing flow fields and identifying key parameters. In this study, we explore the application of PINNs…