Particle Image Velocimetry: Recent Improvements

Invited Lectures:.- Application of PIV to AC electrok inetic flows.- Dynamic PIV : a strong tool to resolve the unsteady phenomena.- Session 1: Aeronautics.- Detailed characterisation, using PIV, of the flow around an aerofoil in a high-lift configuration.- Comparison of numerical simulations of the flow around an airfoil in high lift configuration with PIV experimental results.- Characterization of the flowfield around a transonic wing by PIV.- Wake Vortex Investigations by means of Stereoscopic PIV and 5-Hole Probe.- Session 2: Advanced algorithms.- The local field correction advanced PIV algorithm.- Development and assessment of non-isotropic spatial resolution in PIV.- Advanced PIV algorithms with image distortion, validation and comparison using synthetic images of turbulent flow.- Advances in hybrid PIV-PTV technique and application to vortical flows.- Session 3 : PIV Accuracy.- The EUROPIV Synthetic Image Generator (S.I.G.).- Characterization of different PIV algorithms using the Europiv Synthetic Image Generator and real images from a turbulent boundary layer.- Assessment of vorticity with advanced PIV technique s.- Session 4 : Applications.- Analysis of stereoscopic PIV measurements using synthetic PIV images.- Measurement uncertainty of Stereoscopic-PIV for flow with large out-of-plane motion.- Investigation of Unsteady Effects in Transonic Turbomachinery Flows using Particle Image Velocimetry.- PIV methods for turbulent bubbly flow measurements.- Proposal for netCDF (re)implementation for use with planar velocimetry data.- Session 5 : Turbulence and PTV.- PIV measurements of turbulence decay behind a grid.- PTV for the characterization of turbulent channel flow: comparison of experimental and simulation approaches.- Photogrammetric Particle Image Velocimetry.- Application of PlY to characterise the flow-phenomena of a heavy-duty cylinder head on a stationary flow-bench.- Session 6: Holography and ESPI.- Advances in light-in-flight HPIY for the study of wind tunnel flows.- Holographic PlY for large scale facilities.- Comparison between PlY and ESPI and stereo PlY on the 351 measurement of 3-C velocity fields.- From ESPI to Digital Image Plane Holography (DIPH) : requirements, possibilities and limitations for velocity measurements in a 3-D volume.- Session 7: Stereoscopic PIV.- Study of the accuracy of different stereoscopic reconstruction algorithms.- Self-calibration of PlY video-cameras in Scheimpflug conditions.- 3D-PlY measurements near the wall.- Generation and control of tracer particles for optical flow investigations in air.