Affiliations: Department of Systems Management Engineering, Kansai
University, Yamate-cho 3-3-35, Suita, Osaka, 564-8680, Japan. E-mail:
[email protected]
Abstract: A new high-speed super-resolution PIV was proposed using
characteristic pixel selection to accelerate the successive abandonment (SA)
with recursive window subdivision. The performance and applicability of the
proposed PIV were evaluated. In the SA calculation with the characteristic
pixel selection, 1000 candidates are narrowed down to only one at over 50% of
the measurement points, and the number of error vectors is reduced because the
difference between the cumulative intensities of a correct candidate and of
other ones becomes clear due to the characteristics of selected pixels. In all
recursive processes, error checks are carefully performed using the summation
of the distribution of the cumulative intensity difference distribution, which
is suitable for the SA method. In a comparison of the time per velocity vector,
the present super-resolution PIV was shown to be 10 times faster than the
former ordinary resolution PIV. Another feature of the present super-resolution
PIV is that the velocity vectors are obtained in the region very close to the
image boundaries and masked regions by using the recursive algorithm.