On assuring the accurate alignment of laser sheets for planar and stereoscopic PIV

Muhammad Shehzad; Sean Lawrence; Callum Atkinson; Julio Soria

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On assuring the accurate alignment of laser sheets for planar and stereoscopic PIV

Muhammad Shehzad·Sean Lawrence·Callum Atkinson·Julio Soria

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Several calibration techniques have been proposed in the literature for the calibration of two-component two-dimensional (2C-2D) particle image velocimetry (PIV) and three-component two-dimensional (3C-2D) stereoscopic PIV (SPIV) systems. These techniques generally involve the use of a calibration target that is assumed to be at the exact centre of the laser sheet within the field of view (FOV), which in practice is very difficult to achieve. In 3C-2D SPIV, several methods offer different correction schemes based on the computation of a disparity map, which are aimed at correcting errors produced due to this misalignment. These techniques adjust the calibration of individual cameras to reduce the disparity error, but in doing so can create unintended errors in the measurement position and/or the velocity measurements, such as introducing a bias in the measured three-component (3-C) displacements. This paper introduces a novel method to ensure accurate alignment of the laser sheet with the calibration target so that the uncertainty in displacement measurements is less than or equal to the uncertainty inherent to the PIV and hence, no correction scheme is required. The proposed method has been validated with a simple experiment in which true displacements are given to a particle container (illuminated by an aligned laser sheet) and the measured 3C displacements are compared with the given true displacements. An uncertainty of less than 7.6 micrometres (equivalent to 0.114 pixels) in the measured 3C displacements demonstrates the effectiveness of the new alignment method and eliminates the need for any ad hoc post-correction scheme.

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Muhammad Shehzad, Sean Lawrence, Callum Atkinson, Julio Soria. 2021-04-21. On assuring the accurate alignment of laser sheets for planar and stereoscopic PIV. https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10323

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