Image pre-processing & data post-processing software dedicated to flow measurements in an automotive intake manifold

The SIMBA project had for objective to model the whole air loop of the automotive engine. In order to get boundary conditions for this model and verify it, PIV measurements were done. Simultaneously in the eight intake manifold’s runners of a DV6 TED4 PSA engine, acquisitions were obtained for each of the 720 crank angle degrees. Specific software (named PYV) was developed to pre-process images to deal with constraints inherent to running engine environment, and also to enable automate PIV processing.