PIVlab is a GUI based particle image velocimetry (PIV) software. It does not only calculate the velocity distribution within particle image pairs, but can also be used to derive, display and export multiple parameters of the flow pattern. A user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) with the ability to control a PIV camera and a laser makes PIV data acquisition and data post-processing fast and efficient.
PIVlab comes with it's own unique hardware: Pulsed lasers, LEDs, synchronizers and cameras are available here: Optolution.com
Video tutorial 1/3: Quickstart guide https://youtube.com/watch?v=g2hcTRAzBvY
Video tutorial 2/3: Pre-processing, analysis and data validation https://youtube.com/watch?v=15RTs_USHFk
Video tutorial 3/3: Data exploration and data export https://youtube.com/watch?v=47NCB_RFiE8
PIVlab controlling cameras, lasers, etc. https://youtu.be/8B5M31NWlJc
Installation: https://github.com/Shrediquette/PIVlab/wiki#installation-instructions
Please ask your questions in the PIVlab forum: http://pivlab.blogspot.de/p/forum.html
Software documentation is available in the wiki: https://github.com/Shrediquette/PIVlab/wiki
Code contributors:
- Main: William Thielicke (http://william.thielicke.org)
- Vectorization in piv_fftmulti: Sergey Filatov (http://www.issp.ac.ru/lqc/people.html)
- GUI parallelization: Chun-Sheng Wang, ParaPIV (https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/63358-parapiv)
- Command line parallelization: Quynh M. Nguyen (https://github.com/quynhneo)
- Speed, memory and general optimizations: Maarten (https://github.com/mkbosmans) via VORtech.nl via MathWorks
- Several donations to update Matlab licenses
We would like to acknowledge Uri Shavit, Roi Gurka & Alex Liberzon for sharing their code for 3-point Gaussian sub-pixel estimation. Thanks to Nima Bigdely Shamlo for allowing me to include the LIC function. Thanks to Raffel et al. for writing the book "Particle Image Velocimetry, A Practical Guide", which was a very good help. Thanks to the thousands of publications that use PIVlab for research!