An Improved Particle Image Velocimetry Algorithm for Velocity Measurement of Oil-Water Two-Phase Flow

Abstract

In this paper, an improved PIV algorithm is proposed for the velocity field of oil-water two-phase dispersed flow in horizontal pipe. In the proposed PIV algorithm, interrogation windows are overlapped by 50% in all iterations other than just overlapped in the final iteration. And what’s still different is that the interrogation window can also be a rectangular window just as [64 64; 64 64; 32 32; 32 32; 32 16;]. What’s more, if any element of the final interrogation window is different from the penultimate iteration, there is going to be another interrogation with the last interrogation window size, which can reduce the false vectors. Experimental results show that velocity measurements of oil-water two-phase flow can be realized by this advanced PIV algorithm with high accuracy. At the same time, it provides the basis for further studying the application of PIV in velocity measurements of oil-water two-phase flow.