Abstract:To measure the velocity field in a liquid tank irradiated by laser, a two-dimensional digital particle image velocimetry system was designed in this paper. Small tracer particles, 1~5μm diameter and 1.05g/cm3 density, were added to the liquid. A light sheet system was composed of a 532nm continuous laser and three cylindrical lenses. A CCD camera with micro-lens array was used to capture the pictures of trace particles. Velocity fields were computed by evaluating the digital PIV recordings using cross-correlation method. Experimental results are proved to be in well agreement with the ones obtained by the numerical simulation.