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What campus are you from?
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Kayla Schijveschuurder, Senior
Lead Presenter's Name
Kayla Schijveschuurder
Faculty Mentor Name
Luke Hill
Abstract
Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (SAFS) is an emerging variant of schlieren imaging that addresses the alignment, access, and noise limitations of conventional and focusing schlieren systems. Schlieren techniques visualize refractive-index gradients in transparent flows but traditionally require matched optical components and dual-sided access, which complicates implementation and increases sensitivity to vibration and background disturbances. SAFS integrates source and cutoff functions into a single self-aligning optical element, leveraging retroreflection and polarization optics to provide simplified setup. This project will develop and set up an operational 2-inch-diameter optics SAFS system for flow visualization and analysis.
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
No
Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (SAFS)
Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (SAFS) is an emerging variant of schlieren imaging that addresses the alignment, access, and noise limitations of conventional and focusing schlieren systems. Schlieren techniques visualize refractive-index gradients in transparent flows but traditionally require matched optical components and dual-sided access, which complicates implementation and increases sensitivity to vibration and background disturbances. SAFS integrates source and cutoff functions into a single self-aligning optical element, leveraging retroreflection and polarization optics to provide simplified setup. This project will develop and set up an operational 2-inch-diameter optics SAFS system for flow visualization and analysis.