The principle of PIV
Basic PIV Setup
PIV systems range from rather simple set-ups up to highly complex integrated solutions. Let’s take a short tour through the components.
Light source
The “flash” of your system: Typically, a green laser with repetition rates from a couple of Hz to several kHz. Alternatively, LED based solutions are available.
Optics
Planar PIV works by illuminating only a very thin cross-section of the flow, the “light sheet”.
Cameras
Capture your region-of-interest with our specialized cameras: Go high resolution, time resolved, stereoscopic, etc… Just as your task demands.
Synchronizer
A crucial part of PIV is timing: When you have flows going super-sonic and beyond, every nanosecond counts. Our synchronizer is just that piece of hardware to handle this.
Seeding
There’s no PIV without particles: there are multiple solutions to infuse your fluid with just the right amount of seeding.
Workstation
Nothing works without it in a digitized world: Take control of all your subsystems via our intuitive software solutions.
PIV Software
The image data is transformed into velocity information via cross correlation. Get the most out of your raw-data with PIVview in combination with the Scheduler for efficient batch processing.
Traversing
For some tasks, a tripod mounted camera is just fine, for others you need more degrees of freedom: Move along axis using linear traversing units, or get the total freedom of a robot-mounted system.
Power Box
Sometimes a simple switch is simply not enough: switch your hardware remotely via ethernet and integrate it into your automated system.
Seeding Sensor
Don’t trust your eyes: Quantify and observe your seeding density constantly and get feedback via ethernet.
Valve Switch
When the valve is just out of reach: Remotely control your amount of seeding via Ethernet, just like the rest of our hardware… and as our tour ends here, you’re now prepared to browse our components.
