PIV & Bio-fluid Lab.

Bio Imaging Lab University of Antwerp

Gpu-piv

Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is an optical technique used to measure the velocity of seeded particles in real flow. A CCD camera captures the flow field twice under exposure to a short duration laser flash. Recorded image pairs are cross-correlated to extract velocity information from these records. Time resolved PIV technology can capture images with some hundreds of frames per sec...

Comparison of Piv Measurements and a Discrete Particle Model in a Rectangular 3d Spout-fluid Bed

Particle image velocimetry and a 3D hard sphere discrete particle model were applied to determine particle velocity profiles in the plane around a spout in a spoutfluid bed for various initial bed heights, spout and background fluidization velocities. Comparison between experimental and numerical results revealed that the particle velocities are underestimated by particle image velocimetry, whi...

Computational fluid dynamics analysis and PIV validation of a bionic vortex flow pulsatile LVAD.

BACKGROUND Hemocompatibility is highly affected by the flow field in Left Ventricular Assistant Devices (LVAD). OBJECTIVE An asymmetric inflow and outflow channel arrangement with a 45° intersection angle with respect to the blood chamber is proposed to approximate the vascular structure of the aorta and left atrium on the left ventricle. The structure is expected to develop uninterruptible v...

Direct measurement of fluid velocity gradients at a wall by PIV image processing with stereo reconstruction

Velocity gradient is typically estimated in Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) by differentiating a measured velocity field, which amplifies noise in the measured velocities. If gradients near a boundary are sought, such noise is usually greater than in bulk fluid, because of small tracer displacement, uncertainty in the effective positions of velocity vectors, intense deformation of tracer patte...