Assessment and application of quantitative schlieren methods: Calibrated color schlieren and background oriented schlieren

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-325

  Elsinga, G E ^a   Van Oudheusden, B W ^a   Scarano, F ^a   Watt, D W ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COLOR; DENSITY (OPTICAL); FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PRANDTL NUMBER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RAY TRACING; REDUNDANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL EXPANSION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATED COLOR SCHLIEREN (CCS); CAMERA NOISE; DENSITY MEASUREMENTS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW SEPARATION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SCHLIEREN TECHNIQUE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 1642273420     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-003-0724-8     Document Type: Article

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