SBIR Phase I: Educational Particle Image Velocimetry Suites

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在开发一套低成本的教育粒子图像测速（PIV）套件，包括硬件和软件，适用于高中、本科和研究生阶段的流体科学和工程教育。PIV技术是一种流体流动研究，可以对流场进行可视化和定量分析。工业/研究级PIV系统的成本通常超过10万美元。目前的PIV系统是大功率系统，其高成本和安全性的考虑使其不适合在高等教育系统中采用。这一发展将通过开发软件作为教育过程的虚拟教学助理来创建学习材料，学生可以通过课堂上的计算机终端通过互动实验来增强对流体流动的理解。因此，该软件将成为一种工具，可以在各种教育环境中使用，因为它作为一种教育工具的有效性，高科技的吸引力，紧凑的尺寸，低成本和安全。更广泛的影响包括更有效地利用多核处理器架构的计算能力和提高软件开发人员的生产力的应用程序的开发。该项目的成功技术执行和后续商业开发将影响广泛的应用领域。教育和专业发展也将得到积极协助。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop a low cost educational particle image velocimetry (PIV) suite including both hardware and software for fluid science and engineering education at high-school, undergraduate and graduate school levels. PIV technology is fluid flow research that enables visual and quantitative analysis of the flow field. Industrial/research level PIV system usually costs over $100,000. Current PIV systems are high power systems, and their high cost and safety considerations make them not suitable for adoption in the higher education system. This development will create learning materials by developing software as a virtual teaching assistant for the education process, where the students can develop enhanced understanding of fluid flow by interactive experiments through a computer terminal in the classroom. Hence, the software will be an instrument that can be used in diverse educational settings because of its effectiveness as an education tool, high-tech appeal, compact size, low cost and safety.The broader impacts include the development of applications which more effectively utilize the computational power of multi-core processor architectures and enhanced productivity of software developers. The successful technical execution of this project and the follow up commercial development of this project would impact a broad range of application domains. Education and professional development would also be positively assisted.