PTVlab (Particle Tracking Velocimetry - lab)
PTVlab (Particle Tracking Velocimetry - lab) is a Matlab software featuring state of the art mathematical algorithms and a Graphical User Interface (GUI) adapted from the open source project PIVlab.
This software aims at the analysis of experimental Image Velocimetry measurements using a Lagrangian frame of reference, which can offer several benefits compared to the standard Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique. Several institutions have been involved in the development of PTVlab. Dr Wernher Brevis mainly developed the underlying mathematical algorithms and their implementation during his PhD studies at the University of Chile, Chile and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (Brevis et al, 2011). Dr Brevis's research groups at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, have developed new algorithms and bug fix. The adaptation of the graphical user interface of PIVlab and t