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Schlieren Imaging Of An Aircraft In FlightTechnique for making schlieren images of airplanes and missiles in supersonic flight devised to help understand physics of compressible aerodynamic flows about complicated aircraft shapes. Technique also used to study far-field sonic booms. Data obtained from schlieren images useful in optimizing designs of prototype aircraft. Technique incorporates elements of focusing schlieren photography, astronomical photography, and streak photography. Using sun or moon as source of light, apparatus forms image revealing gradients of density in air flow.
Document ID
19940000401
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other - NASA Tech Brief
Authors
Weinstein, Leonard M.
(NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Laser Tech. Brief.
Volume: 2
Issue: 3
Subject Category
Physical Sciences
Report/Patent Number
LAR-15053
Accession Number
94B10401
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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