The NEXTFLOW team participated with a total of 6 presentations at both the 21st International Symposium on Flow Visualization (ISFV) and the 16th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry (ISPIV), organized consecutively on June 21-28, 2026, at Tokyo. Two of our members got awards for their work!
Young Reseacher Best Presentation
PhD student Luca Franceschelli got awarded the Young Reseacher Best Presentation Award ISFV, presenting a POD-based method for enhancing the spatial resolution of real-time Event-Based Imaging Velocimetry (EBIV). By leveraging Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Kalman filtering, the technique reconstructs high-resolution velocity fields from low-resolution measurements in real-time. The approach significantly outperforms classical interpolation methods such as linear and spline schemes, providing improved accuracy and temporal consistency with minimal computational overhead. Demonstrated on both air and water flow configurations, the method opens new opportunities for fast, high-fidelity flow diagnostics in complex environments.
Winning the Masters of Flow Visualization challenge
Participants explored high-speed imaging and PSP/TSP techniques through two masterclasses. They put their new knowledge into practice in two hands-on experiments: one focused on visualizing and analyzing droplet dynamics, while the second involved visualizing gas distribution in a custom-built channel flow setup.Our PhD student Qihong Lorena Li Hu and her team, won first prize for their outstanding visualizations – capturing droplet behavior through soap films and flow around a toy car, as well as the gas distribution inside a Tesla valve.
