Applications of Particle Tracking Velocimetry to severe nuclear accident experimentation

Applying Feature Tracking to Particle Image Velocimetry

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a popular approach to flow visualisation and measurement in hydroand aerodynamic studies and applications [7]. The fluid is seeded with particles that follow the flow and make it visible. Traditionally, correlation techniques have been used to estimate the displacements of the particles in a digital PIV sequence. Recently, we have successfully applied to PIV ...

Digital Holography Based Particle Tracking Velocimetry

Digital holography appears to be the next-generation technology for holographic diagnostics of particle fields and has been applied to holographic particle tracking flow measurements. In the digital holography, the Fresnel or Fourier holograms are recorded directly by the CCD or CMOS cameras and stored digitally. No film material involving wet-chemical or other processing is necessary as in opt...

Particle Image Velocimetry by Feature Tracking

Single-camera, three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry.

This paper introduces single-camera, three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry (SC3D-PTV), an image-based, single-camera technique for measuring 3-component, volumetric velocity fields in environments with limited optical access, in particular, optically accessible internal combustion engines. The optical components used for SC3D-PTV are similar to those used for two-camera stereoscopic-µ...

A variational approach for particle tracking velocimetry

We introduce a novel variational approach for evaluating PTV image pairs and sequences in two and three dimensions. We combine a discrete non-differentiable particle matching term with a continuous regularization term. An advanced mathematical method guarantees convergence to a local minimum. The experimental evaluation shows that our variational method competes with three alternative approache...