If you ask yourself what the XPIV is, track our research back to 2004. Together with Roi Gurka we have developed the ground breaking experimental technique: multi-plane stereoscopic particle image velocimetry that we entitled XPIV. ‘X’ is because the system can do ‘X’ planes (much more that usual “multi” that can have 2 planes only, but doesn’t want to overlap with the “dual plane PIV”). We have shown how it works for three planes and how it can be extended to 5 plans with $2000. One can get much more if invests in optics. This method is in any case far cheaper than any alternative, e.g. so called “multi-plane” stereoPIV from Gottingen requires: 4 cameras and 2 lasers, plus high-power beam-splitters which are very expensive optics. Our system, shown in the video clip below, is simple, easy to operate and works even in wall-bounded flows.
See how it works:
Read the coverage:
Recently, XPIV got coverage on the two important collections of experimental knowledge:
Recent developments of PIV towards 3D measurements by Arroyo M.P. and Hinsch K.D in
Particle Image Velocimetry
New Developments and Recent Applications
Series: Topics in Applied Physics , Vol. 112
Schröder, Andreas; Willert, Christian E. (Eds.)
2008, XVIII, 512 p. 572 illus., 237 in color. With online files/update., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73527-4
and
Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Tropea, Cameron; Yarin, Alexander L.; Foss, John F. (Eds.)
2007, XXVIII, 1557 p. 1240 illus. in color. With DVD., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-25141-5
