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Historical background

This section provides excerpts of the previous editions of the PIV book. While no longer which of interest to today’s end users of the PIV technique, the material may be relevant to interested readers.

Also available are various applications provided in the previous editions of the book.

Photographic Recording

The state-of-the-art of Photographic Recording (Section 2.7) as described in the second edition of this book is provided in this PDF document:

PIV Recording Techniques

The chapter on PIV Recording Techniques (Chapter 4) from the second edition has completely been reworked. The former version is provided in this PDF document:

Image evaluation methods for PIV

In chapter 5 the sections on Correlation and Fourier Transform (5.1), Summary of PIV Evaluation Methods (5.2) and Optical PIV Evaluation (5.3) have been removed. The contend as printed in the second version of the PIV book is given in this PDF document:

Post processing of PIV Data

In chapter 6 the section on data validation has been replaced. The former content is given in this PDF document:

Related Techniques

Former chapter 10 of the second edition