Evaluation of the cross correlation method by using PIV standard images

Abstract

Effects of various parameters for PIV image acquiring and processing on the final velocity field is studied by using PIV standard images (Okamoto et al., 1997) to evaluate the cross correlation method. The studied parameters include the size of interrogation window, the size of search window, the number of tracer particles, the diameter of tracer particles, out-of-plane velocity and average image velocity or the time interval between two images. In order to improve the PIV sub-pixel accuracy, the validity of the "sub-pixel interpolation" process also is discussed in the paper. Some useful conclusions are suggested for the optimal parameter selection for a final PIV result with high accuracy.