Particle Image Velocimetry: New Developments and Recent Applications [Hardcover]

This book summarizes the main results reached using the EC-funded network PivNet 2. It also presents a survey of the state of the art of scientific research using PIV techniques. You get a clear introduction to the basics of these techniques. The authors then guide you through current and possible future applications for flow analysis, including combustion and supersonic flow. Hundreds of illustrations, many in full color, are provided.

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.

1. Measurements and simulations of the flow field in an electricallyexcited meander micromixer.- 2. Characterisation of micro fluidic devices by measurements with ?-PIV and CLSM.- 3. Time-resolved PIV measurements of vortical structures in the upper human airways.- 4. PIV measurements of flows in artificial heart valves.- 5. Particle Image Velocimetry in Lung Bifurcation Models.- 6. Recent developments of PIV towards 3D measurements.- 7. Tomographic 3D-PIV and applications.- 8. Digital in-line holography system for 3D-3C particllĂ3