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Free-surface synthetic Schlieren (FS-SS) is a high-resolution, refraction-based optical technique for measuring the instantaneous elevation of a liquid interface. Under the assumptions of small amplitude, small slope, and small paraxial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Shimin Zhang , Frédéric Moisy , Wietze Herreman , Zhiliang Lin

We present an open-source background-oriented schlieren dataset with 70 views of high-speed flow over a flight body. Sample analyses are performed using a neural-implicit reconstruction technique (NIRT) with total variation regularization…

Seedless velocimetry is gaining interest in many industrial and research applications. We report on a comparative study of time-resolved optical velocimetry using traditional, mirror-type knife-edge schlieren optics versus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Gary S. Settles , Alex Liberzon

Schlieren imaging is a popular optical technique for visualizing flow in transparent media. In-water high-sensitivity flow visualization, using schlieren imaging, is usually performed with a large-footprint two-mirror z-configuration. Here,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-06 Shubham Saxena , Manish Kumar

This study proposes a radically alternate approach for extracting quantitative information from schlieren images. The method uses a scaled, derivative enhanced Gaussian process model to obtain true density estimates from two corresponding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-23 Bryn Noel Ubald , Pranay Seshadri , Andrew Duncan

A high-resolution background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique, which utilizes a high-resolution camera and a microdot background pattern, is proposed and used to measure the pressure field of an underwater shock wave in a microtube. The…

The paper introduces hidden grid background oriented schlieren for quantitative study and visualization of natural convection heat transfer. In this technique, the refractive index variation, induced by the temperature gradient, is encoded…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Jagadesh Ramaiah , Tullio de Rubeis , Rajshekhar Gannavarpu , Dario Ambrosini

Schlieren deflectometry aims at characterizing the deflections undergone by refracted incident light rays at any surface point of a transparent object. For smooth surfaces, each surface location is actually associated with a sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Prasad Sudhakar , Laurent Jacques , Xavier Dubois , Philippe Antoine , Luc Joannes

Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is high-resolution lensless microscopy that has been applied to image a wide range of specimens using synchrotron radiation, X-ray free electron lasers, high harmonic generation, soft X-ray laser and…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-23 Jose A Rodriguez , Rui Xu , Chien-Chun Chen , Yunfei Zou , Jianwei Miao

A deep learning-assisted inversion method is proposed to solve the inhomogeneous background imaging problem. Three non-iterative methods, namely the distorted-Born (DB) major current coefficients method, the DB modified Born approximation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Naike Du , Tiantian Yin , Jing Wang , Rencheng Song , Kuiwen Xu , Bingyuan Liang , Sheng Sun , Xiuzhu Ye

We describe a self calibrating optical technique that allows to perform absolute measurements of scattering cross sections for the light scattered at extremely small angles. Very good performances are obtained by using a very simple optical…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doriano Brogioli , Alberto Vailati , Marzio Giglio

A quantitative synthetic Schlieren imaging (SSI) method based on fast Fourier demodulation is presented. Instead of a random dot pattern (as usually employed in SSI), a 2D periodic pattern (such as a checkerboard) is used as a backdrop to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-04 Sander Wildeman

Synthetic schlieren is an digital image processing optical method relying on the variation of optical index to visualize the flow of a transparent fluid. In this article, we present a step-by step, easy-to-implement and affordable…

We consider the statistical inverse problem of estimating a background flow field (e.g., of air or water) from the partial and noisy observation of a passive scalar (e.g., the concentration of a solute), a common experimental approach to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Jeff Borggaard , Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Justin A. Krometis

This paper studies inverse problems in quantitative photoacoustic tomography with additional optical current data supplemented from diffuse optical tomography. We propose a three-stage image reconstruction method for the simultaneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Yinxi Pan , Kui Ren , Shanyin Tong

Mass density is a vital property for improved biophysical understanding of and within biological samples. It is increasingly attracting active investigation, but still lacks reliable, non-contact techniques to accurately characterize it in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-12 Conrad Möckel , Jiarui Li , Giulia Zanini , Jochen Guck , Giuliano Scarcelli

In fluid flow imaging, intensity gradients are a good measure of spatial variations in scalar properties, which play an important role in controlling transport processes. However, current flow imaging techniques exhibit system-limited…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Hy Cao , Abhishek Saha , Lisa V. Poulikakos

Conventional intensity cameras recover objects in the direct line-of-sight of the camera, whereas occluded scene parts are considered lost in this process. Non-line-of-sight imaging (NLOS) aims at recovering these occluded objects by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Wenzheng Chen , Simon Daneau , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

Ultrasonic acoustic fields have recently been used to generate haptic effects on the human skin as well as to levitate small sub-wavelength size particles. Schlieren imaging and background-oriented schlieren techniques can be used for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Michele Iodice , William Frier , James Wilcox , Ben Long , Orestis Georgiou

The stratified inclined duct (SID) experiment consists of a zero-net-volume exchange flow in a long tilted rectangular duct, which allows the study of realistic stratified shear flows with sustained internal forcing. We present the first…