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Particle Image Velocimetry

A Practical Guide

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  • Important reference and textbook for industry, university and students
  • Covers all major applications of PIV
  • New, completely updated and enlarged edition
  • Very comprehensive source for PIV developers and users

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
  2. Introduction

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 1-13
  3. Physical and Technical Background

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 15-77
  4. Mathematical Background of Statistical PIV Evaluation

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 79-95
  5. PIV Recording Techniques

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 97-121
  6. Image Evaluation Methods for PIV

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 123-176
  7. Post-Processing of PIV Data

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 177-208
  8. Three-Component PIV Measurements

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 209-239
  9. Micro-PIV

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 241-258
  10. Examples of Application

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 259-388
  11. Related Techniques

    • Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Steve T. Wereley, Jürgen Kompenhans
    Pages 389-402
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 403-448

About this book

The development of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), a measurement technique, which allows for capturing velocity information of whole ?ow ?elds in fractions of a second, has begun in the eighties of the last century. In 1998, when this book has been published ?rstly, the PIV technique emerged from laboratories to applications in fundamental and industrial research, in par- lel to the transition from photo-graphicalto video recording techniques. Thus this book, whose objective was and is to serve as a practical guide to the PIV technique, found strong interest within the increasing group of users. The early progress made with the PIV technique might best be char- terized by the experience gained during our aerodynamic research at DLR (Deutsches Zentrum fur ¨ Luft- und Raumfahrt) at that time. The ?rst app- cations of PIV outside the laboratory, in wind tunnels, as performed in the mid-eighties were characterized by the following time scales: time required to set up the system and to obtain well focused photo-graphical PIV recordings was 2 to 3 days, time required to process the ?lm was 0. 5 to 1 day, time - quired to evaluate a single photo-graphicalPIV recording by means of optical evaluation methods was 24 to 48 hours. When the ?rst edition of this book was published in 1998, with electronic cameras and computers, it was pos- ble to focus on-line, to capture several recordings per second, and to evaluate a digital recording within seconds.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This second edition of a text first published in 1998 represents a comprehensive reference written by noted experts in the field on the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique. … Particle Image Velocimetry … represents the most comprehensive reference on the PIV technique to date. … the second edition of this book will undoubted serve the PIV community, novice and advanced users … ." (Kenneth T. Christensen, AIAA Journal, Vol. 46 (11), November, 2008)

Authors and Affiliations

  • DLR, Institut für Aerodynamik und Strömungstechnik, Bunsenstraße 10, Germany

    Markus Raffel, Jürgen Kompenhans

  • DLR, Institut für Antriebstechnik, 51170 Köln, Germany

    Christian E. Willert

  • Purdue University, Purdue Mall 585, USA

    Steve T. Wereley

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eBook USD 109.00
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