Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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532 SHAFER November The solutions of (17) for several disturbances are shown in Fig. 6. From Figs. 6 and 7 it is apparent that the aperture of the system has a marked effect on the quality of the schlieren photograph. The larger ±8 8 88 fO 0 o the aperture for a given, disturbance, the greater will be the contrast and density of the image. Fig. 6 indicates a halo around all opaque surfaces parallel to the knife-edge in a schlieren system. It is important that this fact be borne in mind when using schlieren pictures for boundary-layer