Thermographic PIV is a combination of two independent commonly used measurement techniques:
Flow field velocities are determined from double frame images of the seeding particles using particle image velocimetry (PIV). All 2D PIV techniques can be applied, such as planar, stereo and time resolved PIV.
Flow temperature is measured using phosphor thermometry. A 2-color ratiometric approach is used to exploit the temperature dependent behavior of the phosphorescence.