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Twenty years of particle image velocimetry

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The development of the method of particle image velocimetry (PIV) is traced by describing some of the milestones that have enabled new and/or better measurements to be made. The current status of PIV is summarized, and some goals for future advances are addressed.

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  1. There may be many earlier papers from different fields that suggested using correlation in somewhat different contexts. For example, Soo et al. (1959) presented a particularly prescient proposal for the “determination of turbulence characteristics of solid particles in a two-phase stream by optical cross-correlation.” Leese et al. (1971) describe “an automated technique for obtaining cloud motion from geosynchronous satellite data using cross-correlation.”

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Acknowledgements

This paper was prepared with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge with gratitude the many contributions of the students, post-doctoral associates, senior visiting scholars, and academic collaborators who, over the past 20 years, have studied particle image velocimetry in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanic’s Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Flow. They are, in rough chronological order: C.-S. Yao, C. Landreth, J. Kompenhans, M. Lee, R. Keane, Z. C. Liu, D. L. Reuss, T. J. Hanratty, P. Offutt, A. Prasad, M. Cui, C. Wark, H. Xu, T. Urushihara, J. Westerweel, C. Westergaard, C. Meinhart, K. Paschal, J. Brouillette, Y. Zhang, D. Barnhart, G. Papen, V. Troy, T. Oakley, E. Loth, C. Tomkins, S. Soloff, U. Ullum, K. Christensen, R. Fernandes, K. Sharp, N. Fujisawa, C. Kaehler, K. Nishino, J. Sakakibara, K.C. Kim, D. Hill, K. Takehara, J. Santiago, M. Olsen, Z. Deng, B. Balasubramanian, E.Yamaguchi, M. Murphy, W. Lai, G. Elliott, and P. Vedula.

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Adrian, R.J. Twenty years of particle image velocimetry. Exp Fluids 39, 159–169 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-005-0991-7

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