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openpiv

Category: physical-sciences · License: BSD-3-Clause · Version: 1.1 · Includes scripts Tags: particle image velocimetry, PIV, fluid dynamics, flow visualization, physics

When to use it

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis with OpenPIV. Use when extracting velocity fields from PIV image pairs, analyzing fluid dynamics or flow visualization experiments, cross-correlating interrogation windows, validating and replacing spurious PIV vectors, or computing vorticity, strain rate, and turbulence statistics from measured velocity fields.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “How do I get a velocity field out of two PIV frames?”
  • “I have two TIFFs from our water-tunnel run, cyl_0001_a.tif and cyl_0001_b.tif, dt = 0.5 ms, and the calibration is 12 px/mm. I used multi-pass in windef with settings.dt set, but my u,v are still around 4 – this looks like pixels, not mm/s. What’s wrong, and how do I validate the vectors afterwards? I used a (-30, 30) limit.”
  • “I’ve got a grid of 2D velocity vectors measured from seeded flow around a cylinder. I want to know where the flow is rotating and how much, and whether the field is turbulent. What should I compute and how should I be careful?”

Install

In Claude Code you can also add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole physical-sciences category with /plugin install physical-sciences@research-agent-skills.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.
Last modified on October 19, 2026