Applications: Helicopter Aerodynamics

In this chapter a number of applications of the PIV technique will be described, contributed by leading PIV experts from different research establishments and universities worldwide. Primarily, the objective of presenting these applications is to show how the PIV technique has spread out to the most different research areas. However, it is of even higher importance to gain the reader access to a wide variety of ideas for PIV measurements by presenting many different applications in fundamental or industrial research. For each experiment the most important parameters of the object under investigation, of the illumination and recording setup, etc. will be given. These data together with the hints and tricks briefly described and the references to further, more detailed, literature may be useful for the reader when trying to solve problems of his own application.