Contents

• Installation
  • Unix/Linux
  • Windows
  • Adding the path to Matlab
  
  
• An example session
  • The easy way
  • The not so easy way
    • Specifying the coordinate system
    • Masking out regions of the flow
    • Calculating velocities
    • Filtering the result
    • Visualizing the results
  • The need-to-know basics
  
  
• MatPIV behind the scenes
  • How does it work?
    • Pattern Matching - the principles
  • The core files
    • matpiv.m
    • definewoco.m - defining the mapping between pixels and centimeters
    • mask.m - Masking out regions of the flow
  • Filters in MatPIV
    • Signal-to-Noise ratio
    • Global histogram operator
    • Local filter
    • Interpolate outliers
  • Integral and differential quantities
    • Streamlines
    • Vorticity
    • Other files included
  • Batch-processing with MatPIV
  • Using a parameter-file as input
  
  
• Bibliography