Methods for Digital Particle Image Sizing (DPIS): Comparisons and improvements

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 207-219

  Brady, Michael R ^a   Raben, Samuel G ^a   Vlachos, Pavlos P ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Particle sizing; Particle velocimetry; Subpixel resolution estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTINUOUS METHODS; DIAMETER ESTIMATION; DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE; DISCRETIZATION EFFECTS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FOUR-POINT; FOUR-POINT METHOD; GAUSSIAN ESTIMATOR; GAUSSIANS; INTEGRAL FORMULATIONS; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATOR; LOCAL LEAST SQUARES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PARTICLE IMAGES; PARTICLE MEAN DIAMETERS; PARTICLE SIZING; PARTICLE VELOCIMETRY; PHASE-DOPPLER; PIXEL COUNTING; PRESSURE SPRAY; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPRAY ATOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ERROR ANALYSIS; SUBPIXEL RESOLUTION ESTIMATION;

ATOMIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; JETS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; PIXELS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349840648     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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