The present work deals with the application of Topological Imaging to Ultrasonic Echo-Particle Image Velocimetry (Echo-PIV). Echo-PIV is a recent alternative to optical PIV for measuring the instantaneous velocity field of a fluid flow previously seeded with small particles. It consists in imaging the flow with an ultrasonic array at a high frame rate. Topological imaging is a method that benefits from the refocusing properties of the time-reversal principle in a systematic way, so that a single plane wave illumination of the medium leads to a fine resolution. Multiple insonifications are then possible at very high speed allowing not only static images of the medium but successive images of a moving medium. Experimental results are presented for a fluid seeded with stone powder. Two cases are studied: a vortex flow and the propagation of water surface waves.
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