Abstract:
A camera has been developed which enables oscillations of shock-waves and of other quasi-stationary phenomena in a wind tunnel to be photographed by either the schlieren method or the shadowgraph method at speeds up to 2000 frames per second, and with exposures of the order of 1 microsecond. Photographs of an oscillation which occurs when the critical Mach number is exceeded at low Reynolds number on an EC 1250 aerofoil are included as examples.