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PIVlab

Background and quick start guide

PIVlab by William Thiellicke and Eize J. Stamhuis, is a program that can derive velocity information from image data using a method called particle image velocimetry. The whole software develop is based on the ideas and the principles presented in a book called Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide.

Usage:

1. Navigate to the PIVlab folder and then run PIVlab_GUI.m
2. Load image data, for exmaple, PIVlab/Examples/PIVlab_Karman_0?.bmp
3. Define region of interest (ROI) and also a mask (exclude some region from the analysis)
   • mask:
     • Zoom
     • Draw mask(s) for current frame
     • Double click the mask region
     • Apply current mask(s) to frames...
4. Pre-process the image data (all these steps are actually done automatically and also they have some default settings)
   • different pre-process filters
     • CLATHE (contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization): enhance the contrast locally (ROI) in the image
     • high-pass (generally not use): emphasis the high frequency changes in the image shader. The purpose of the high-pass filter is to “sharpen” image. Sharpening will lose some information.
     • Intensity capping (Only needed for some special cases): equalize full-size and intensity of the particle data
     • denoise filter: if you have very noisy data
     • Preview current frame
5. Set the PIV settings
   • FFT window deformation
   • in this example, use 4 passes to analyze data
     • the first pass should hace pretty large interrogation areas so you really capture the high velocity flow information
     • gradually decrease your interrogation size
     • you can see how big the interrogation areas actually are
6. Start analysis
   • analyze all the frames
   • you can see how the resolution of the velocity information increases with every step
   • you can scroll through you timeline of image data
7. Calibrate your data
   • select reference distance: not very accurate
     • set real distance and time step
   • apply calibration
   • if you click on any of these vectors, at the side you will see the u components (a horizontal flow velocity)
8. Calidate the vectors: some vectors that are too large so there are errors in the correlation
   • Menu bar->Post-processing-Vector validation
   • the simplest validation method for validating velocities is actually to set the window width allowed velocities and non allowed velocities: Select velocity limits
   • select an rectangle, which is valid velocity information that I want to allow
   • Apply to all frames
   • error vectors have disappeared and they will replace automatically by interpolated data
9. Display some parameters of the data
   • Menu bar->Plot->Derive parameters/modify data
   • eg. Velocity magnitude->Apply to all frames
   • color bar: Menu bar->Plot->Modify color appearance
   • Menu bar->Extractions: you can do a lot of data extractions
   • extract parameters from a line: Menu bar->Extractions->Parameters from poly-line-Draw-Parameter-Plot data
   • export the data: Menu bar->File->Save