Assessment of refractive index gradients by standard rainbow thermometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7275-7281

  Vetrano, Maria Rosaria ^a   Van Beeck, Jeronimus Petrus Antonius Johannes ^a   Riethmuller, Michel Léon ^a  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; RAIN; THERMOMETERS;

AIRY THEORY; BURNING DROPLET; DATA INVERSION ALGORITHM; REFRACTIVE INDEX GRADIENT;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 29344469836     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007275     Document Type: Article

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