LaVision is a master at developing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) systems. Each system designed using PIV is developed for measuring under specific environments (i.e. under flowing movement in air /fluid motion in water)
With components including continuous wave and pulse lasers, high-speed and sCMOS cameras, all of them conveniently controlled with a precise timing unit, a FlowMaster system can be adapted to a wide range of measurement demands in all fields of fluid dynamics.
LaVision’s FlowMaster PIV systems can be used for 2D and stereoscopic flow field analysis. FlowMaster 2D measures two velocity components in a plane (2D2C) with one camera. FlowMaster Stereo-PIV is a straightforward extension of the FlowMaster 2D concept and enables the measurement of all three velocity components inside a light sheet (2D3C) using two cameras.
For Stereo-PIV LaVision has developed a unique and patented camera calibration method. This so-called Self-Calibration method uses the original particle images of both cameras to correct even large misalignments between calibration plate and laser light sheet. LaVision’s Self-Calibration method is a standard feature of the Stereo-PIV software in DaVis.
BASICS OF 2D CROSS CORRELATION PLANAR PIV
PRINCIPLE OF STEREOSCOPIC PIV
ADVANTAGE OF STEREO-PIV SELF-CALIBRATION
- Ultimate accuracy: lesser calibration errors
- User-friendly: elimate the need to align calibration plate exactly with light sheet
- In-situ calibration: refinement using recorded measurement data
- Time saving for fixed camera assembly: calibration can be prepared off-site
- Fast & Easy: All scanning positions calibrated at once
FlowMaster Tomographic (Tomo) PIV is an extension of the FlowMaster Stereo-PIV concept and enables the instantaneous measurement of all three velocity components in a complete 3D measurement volume (3D3C).
FlowMaster Tomo-PIV systems use the same laser and camera equipment as in planar PIV setups, i. e. a direct migration from 2D- or Stereo-PIV to Tomo-PIV is straightforward best adding one or two cameras.
**Similar to FlowMaster, the Tomo PIV is also capable of self-calibrating, even for 3D reconstruction.
PRINCIPLE OF TOMOGRAPHIC PIV
TIME-RESOLVED TOMO-PIV
TOMOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS
HELIUM-FILLED SOAP BUBBLE (HFSB) GENERATOR: LARGE SCALE PIV/PTV IN AIR
APPLICATION: IMAGING IN A WIND TUNNEL FOR FULL SCALE AUTOMOTIVE TESTING
Four high-speed cameras recorded the 3D wake flow at wind speeds of 60 km/h and 120 km/h, respectively. A high-speed laser was used for illumination. LaVision’s Shake-the-Box time-resolved 3D-PTV technique was applied to calculate the time-resolved 3D flow fields.
TIME-RESOLVED PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCITY (PTV): SHAKE IN BOX
Shake-the-box is the most advanced 3D Lagrangian Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) method for densely seeded flows at highest spatial resolution.
Shake-the-Box is a purely particle-based technique using an Iterative Particle Reconstruction (IPR) technique in combination with an advanced 4D-PTV algorithm using the time-information for track reconstruction.
Pressure measurements are needed in many research areas and the common measurement method is the use of pressure taps, which is costly and time-consuming and limited to a small number of points. Therefore, groups from several universities and LaVision joined forces in the European NIOPLEX project which led to a Pressure from PIV package in DaVis 10.
The LaVision 4D solver provides direct access to instantaneous and average pressure fields from 2D-, Stereo- and Tomographic PIV data as well as from particle tracks (Shake-the-Box).
With only a few clicks, Pressure from PIV together with LaVision’s DaVis 10 software retrieves and visualises average pressure fields from all kinds of PIV and PTV velocity data either imported to or directly computed by DaVis. For time-resolved data, even the instantaneous pressure can be evaluated.
