Recent developments in background oriented Schlieren methods for rotor blade tip vortex measurements

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 233-240

  Kindler, Kolja ^a   Goldhahn, Erik ^b   Leopold, Friedrich ^c   Raffel, Markus ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

HELICOPTER FLOW; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

VORTEX FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 34548084624     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-007-0328-9     Document Type: Article

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