Supersonic Flow Visualizations You Won't Find in Van Dyke or Takayama!
If you're fascinated by fluid mechanics, you've likely encountered
An Album of Fluid Motion
by Milton Van Dyke and the dramatic shock wave visualizations of Kazuyoshi Takayama. Yet even these iconic works overlook a method that is as simple as it is ingenious - and long forgotten: the
gas-hydraulic analogy
.
This book is the
first specialized visual album
dedicated to modeling supersonic gas. The rare experimental photographs presented here were captured over 30 years ago at the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute named after Abu Raykhan Beruni.