Development of Some Specific Aspects of the Method

The PIV technique is widely applied at laboratory scale. One of the main objectives of EUROPIV was to demonstrate the applicability of PIV to large industrial wind tunnel experiments. This transfer from laboratory to large wind tunnels brings along different kinds of problems. Apart from an optical set-up capable of recording the micron scale particles at relatively large object distances, the scale enlargement requires a seeding technique capable of seeding large volumes with uniform particle density. Moreover, the application of a measurement system in an industrial wind tunnel requires the system to be: easy to set-up,remotely controllable and movable,able to check validity of data on-line,able to acquire large (unlimited) quantities of data,able to generate processed data automatically.