%0 Generic %A Thielicke, William %A J. Stamhuis, Eize %D 2018 %T PIVlab - Time-Resolved Digital Particle Image Velocimetry Tool for MATLAB %U https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/PIVlab_version_1_35/1092508 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.1092508.v8 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/10656961 %K matlab %K PIVab %K particle image velocimetry %K cross-correlation %K image processing %K Environmental Science %K Limnology %K Oceanography %K Physiology %K Cell Biology %K Atmospheric Sciences %K Geophysics %K Applied Physics %K Climate Science %K Microbiology %K Computer Software %K Biophysics %K Biological Engineering %K Biotechnology %K Soil Science %K Hydrology %K Particle Physics %K Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing %K Aerospace Engineering %K Marine Biology %K Solid Mechanics %K Biological Techniques %K Zoology %X

PIVlab is a time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) software that does not only calculate the velocity distribution within particle image pairs, but can also be used to derive, display and export multiple parameters of the flow pattern. A user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) makes PIV analyses and data post-processing fast and efficient.

Video about the tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp3Ounq07Qc


Example analyses & videos can be found on the PIVlab website:
http://PIVlab.blogspot.com

Please ask your questions in the PIVlab forum:
http://pivlab.blogspot.de/p/forum.html

Peer reviewed paper on PIVlab:

Thielicke, W and Stamhuis, E.J. 2014. PIVlab – Towards User-friendly, Affordable and Accurate Digital Particle Image Velocimetry in MATLAB. Journal of Open Research Software 2(1):e30, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jors.bl

Main features:
* completely GUI based PIV tool
* multi-pass, multi grid window deformation technique
* import bmp/ tiff/ jpeg image pairs/ series
* image sequencing styles A-B, C-D, ... or A-B, B-C, ...
* individual image masking and region of interest (ROI) selection
* image pre-processing (contrast enhancement, highpass, intensity capping)
* two different sub-pixel estimators
* multiple vector validation methods
* magnitude/ vorticity/ divergence/ shear / ...
* data smoothing, vector field highpass
* multiple colormaps
* streamlines
* extensive data extraction tools/ integration via poly lines/ circles/ area
* statistics (histograms, scatterplot, mean & stdev)
* precise particle image pair generation with user-defined parameters and several flow simulations (synthetic PIV image generator)
* data export (matlab, ascii, movie file, image, Paraview, ...)
* main features accessible via comand line scripting

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