Schlieren and Shadowgraph Techniques: Visualizing Phenomena in Transparent Media

✍ Scribed by Professor G. S. Settles (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Series: Experimental Fluid Mechanics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Schlieren and shadowgraph techniques are basic and valuable tools in various scientific and engineering disciplines. They allow us to see the invisible: the optical inhomogeneities in transparent media like air, water, and glass that otherwise cause only ghostly distortions of our normal vision.
These techniques are discussed briefly in many books and papers, but there is no up-to-date complete treatment of the subject before now. The book is intended as a practical guide for those who want to use these methods, as well as a resource for a broad range of disciplines where scientific visualization is important. The colorful 400-year history of these methods is covered in an extensive introductory chapter accessible to all readers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Historical Background....Pages 1-24
Basic Concepts....Pages 25-38
Toepler’s Schlieren Technique....Pages 39-75
Large-Field and Focusing Schlieren Methods....Pages 77-110
Specialized Schlieren Techniques....Pages 111-141
Shadowgraph Techniques....Pages 143-163
Practical Issues....Pages 165-199
Setting Up Your Own Simple Schlieren and Shadowgraph System....Pages 201-209
Applications....Pages 211-262
Quantitative Evaluation....Pages 263-278
Summary and Outlook....Pages 279-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-376

✦ Subjects

Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Engineering, general;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Thermodynamics;Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering