PIVlab – particle image velocimetry (PIV) tool with GUI

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.

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

Installation: https://github.com/Shrediquette/PIVlab/wiki

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)
• 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.

Visit Matlabs File exchange site for PIVlab: