J. Nogueira et al., Local field correction PIV, implemented by means of simple algorithms, andmultigrid versions, MEAS SCI T, 12(11), 2001, pp. 1911-1921
Local field correction particle image velocimetry (LFCPIV), which was first
presented in 1997, is the only correlation PIV method able to resolve flow
structures smaller than the interrogation window. It presents advantages o
ver conventional systems and thus offers an alternative in the field of sup
er-resolution methods. Improvements of the initial version are likely to pr
omote its application even further. The issues defining some of these possi
ble improvements were already indicated in the paper that originally introd
uced LFCPIV, but not developed. This work presents refinements and also sim
plifications of the technique, so that it can be applied using current algo
rithms of advanced correlation PIV systems. Furthermore, these refinements
reduce the measurement error and enlarge the range of application of LFCPIV
. In particular, the application of the system is no longer constrained to
images with mean distances between particles larger than 4 pixels. Besides
that, the use of interrogation windows smaller than in its previous version
is evaluated. This allows multigrid LFCPIV implementations. The results sh
ow how multi.-rid LFCPIV can obtain better measurements than can the usual
multigrid PIV, but still the refined version of the LFCPIV technique perfor
ms even better, at the expense of a larger computing time. The performance
of these methods is evaluated for synthetic and real images. This includes
examples in which the ability to cope with gradients in velocity, gradients
in seeding density and the presence of boundaries is highlighted.