Schlieren Imaging Systems

This video introduces the flow visualisation systems set up at UNSW Canberra. It briefly discusses the principles of so-called density-sensitive visualisation (shadowgraph, schlieren, interferometry) and provides a few examples of the application of these methods. Such applications include super- and hypersonic aerodynamics, ballistics, shock and blast wave research as well as the visualisation of everyday phenomena in which density changes occur. Most of the applications are related to very fast and transi