Development of High-speed Video Cameras for Dynamic PIV

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Etoh, G.T. | Takehara, K. | Takano, Y.

Affiliations: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan.

Abstract: The most promising next generation Image Velocimtry (IV) is the high-speed Dynamic PIV. It requires the development of innovative high-speed video camera sensors. We started by specifying the required performance of these new sensors, for measurements in air and water flows. These criteria founded on the most recent developments in PIV algorithms and incorporate results from a large questionnaire survey of users of high-speed video cameras in Japan. The results suggest that the followings are required: (1) frame rate of 1,000,000 fps, (2) pixel count of 1,000,000 pixels, (3) frame storage capacity of 100 - 200 frames for tracing a single event and 10,000 frames for turbulent measurements, (4) gray levels of 4 - 8 bits for PTV; 12 bits for observation. Finally, we reviewed the state of the art of high-speed video-image sensors. Currently the standard parallel-readout sensors can operate at 1 Kfps with a pixel count of approximately 1 Kpixels. The In-situ Storage Image Sensor (ISIS) developed by the authors has recently achieved frame rates of 1 Mfps.

Keywords: high-speed video camera , ISIS , Dynamic PIV , PTV, image sensor

Journal: Journal of Visualization, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 213-224, 2002