PIV & LIF (LaVision)
FlowMaster
Advanced PIV / PTV Systems for Quantitative Flow Field Analysis
With FlowMaster Stereo-PIV, all three velocity components (u,v,w) in a light sheet are measured (2D3C). It is based on the principle of stereoscopic imaging: two cameras capture the image of the illuminated tracer particles from different angles. Scheimpflug lens arrangements keep all areas of the measurement planes in focus.
Advantages of Stereo-PIV Self-Calibration
- ultimate accuracy: reduction of calibration errors.
- user-friendly: no need to align calibration plate exactly with light sheet.
- in-situ calibration: refinement using recorded measurement data.
- time saving for fixed camera assembly: calibration can be prepared off-site.
- easy multi-plane scanning: all scanning positions calibrated at once.
FlowMaster System Components
| Standard PIV/PTV cameras | Model | Features | High-speed PIV/PTV cameras | Model | Synthetic Fused Silica |
 | Imager sCMOS | combining extreme sensitivity with high dynamic range and frame rate |  | Photron cameras | up to 4 million pixel CMOS cameras with frame rates up to 25.6 kHz at full resolution and 1 MHz frame rates at reduced resolution, up to 288 GB on board RAM and extremely high sensitivity |
 | Imager MX cameras | compact CMOS cameras with up to 50 million pixel and frame rates up to 180 Hz at full resolution |  | Phantom cameras | |
 | Imager CX cameras | excellent image quality with high sensitivity, 5 to 25 million pixel and down to 100 ns interframe time |  | MiniShaker Aero | multi-camera system with double frame mode and co-axial laser illumination |
 | Imager CX2 cameras | excellent image quality combined with low readout noise, true 8, 10 and 12 bit digital images |  | MiniShaker 3D cameras | 3D camera with 4 sensors with frame rates of 121 Hz at full resolution and up to 1 kHz at a reduced resolution of 704 x 358 px for each sensor |
