Abstract of
THE ANALYSIS OF THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN AS A DECISIVE FACTOR DURING THE EVALUATION PROCESS OF DPIV IMAGES CONTAINING DISTURBING AREAS
 
T. Scheffler, , H. Siekmann
Technical University of Berlin Sekr. K2, Hydraulic Turbomachinery Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany
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Digital-Particle-Image-Velocimetry (DPIV) evaluation algorithms based on correlation techniques are usually designed to run over the whole image. If a DPIV image contains disturbing structures and areas, incorrect velocity data will occur at these places. A data validation should recognise these unwanted data, or they will be hidden during the post-processing with the structures themselves. A more elegant method is to avoid the appearance of incorrect data. An investigation of a decisive factor to predict the sense of a local DPIV evaluation is presented. In addition, this prediction is useful to change locally the evaluation process from DPIV to Particle-Tracking-Velocimetry (PTV). This is illustrated on a DPIV image of an experimental flow. The decisive factor deals with the analysis of the grey-value-histogram of the frequency domain of the interrogation areas of DPIV images using a rather small neural network. The use of a neural network does not extend the evaluation time on the investigated DPIV images. On the contrary, a decrease is observed. The analysis of the frequency domain is designed for single-frame double-exposure DPIV images.
 
 
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