Light field volumetric particle image velocimetry

A novel single camera volumetric velocity measurement technique is presented, which utilizes the advanced light field imaging technology to capture 3D PIV tracer particle images. The framework of Light Field Particle Image Velocimetry (LF-PIV) includes an in-house high resolution light field camera, multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (MART) based light field particle image reconstruction method and a ray tracing based synthetic light field particle image generation platform. The LF-PIV technique is compared with Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry (Tomo-PIV) by using both synthetic DNS jet flow images as well as water jet experimental images. Results show that LF-PIV is capable of reconstructing the instantaneous volumetric velocity field with the accuracy similar to that of Tomo-PIV.