 
Animation of vortex pair from a pump exit. The animation is generated directly from the DynamicStudio database.
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a non-intrusive laser optical measurement technique for research and diagnostics into flow, turbulence, microfluidics, spray atomization and combustion processes.
Standard PIV measures two velocity components in a plane (2D2C) using a single CCD or CMOS camera.
Stereo PIV measures three velocity components in a plane (2D3C) using two cameras.
Volumetric Velocimetry (also known as 3D PIV or Tomographic PIV) measures three velocity components in a volume (3D3C) using two, three or four cameras.
Time resolved PIV benefits from the advances in CMOS camera technology to acquire high resolution PIV images at frame rates up to 16000 fps (frames per second) with full camera resolution.
Related techniques for measurements of flow fields are Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV), Feature Tracking and Feature PIV.
MicroPIV is used for flow studies in micro-channels in lab-on-a-Chip devices
Features
- Non intrusive, planar or volumetric technique
- Velocity range 0 to supersonic
- Two or three velocity components simultaneously
- Measurement areas from <1 mm2 to >1 m2
- Snapshots of flowfields
- Instantaneous velocity vector maps in a cross-section or volume of the flow
- Statistics, spatial correlations and other relevant data are available
- Results are similar to computational fluid dynamics, i.e. large eddy simulations.
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