Abstract
Stereoscopic PIV measurements are conducted on a 2D stationary circular cylinder at Reynolds number 15000, based on cylinder diameter. The experiments form part of the validation of an in-house developed stereoscopic PIV reconstruction procedure. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the difficulties associated with stereo PIV measurements in liquid flows in the context of high Reynolds flow measurements past a cylinder. A liquid filled prism can be used to correct for the radial distortions of SPIV for liquid flows. This method significantly improves the stereo-image focusing ability. The stereo method utilised here is able to provide high quality data of the flow past the cylinder