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Blast waves created by small exploding bridge wires are used as a test bed for the development of a particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique that uses polymers, seeded with scattering particles, as dynamic witness plates. Combined with pulsed, incoherent schlieren photography, the PIV method permits visualization of the instantaneous velocity vector field in a plane cutting through the blast wave.
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Michael J. Murphy: He received his B.S. degree in Physics in 2002 from California State University Stanislaus and is currently completing his M.S. degree in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics under the advisement of Ronald J. Adrian at the University of Illinois. His research interests are micro-detonations, compressible flows, experimental optics, and experimental fluid mechanics using optical techniques such as holography, schlieren photography, and particle image velocimetry.
Ronald J. Adrian: He received his B.M.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1967 from the University of Minnesota, his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1969 from the University of Minnesota, and his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1972 from the University of Cambridge. He joined the University of Illinois in 1972 where he became a full Professor in 1981. He now holds the Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair in Engineering and is Director of the Laboratory on Turbulence and Complex Flows in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His research interests are turbulence, wall turbulence, thermal convection, vortex structures, laser instrumentation and experimental fluid mechanics.
D. Scott Stewart: He obtained a BS.E. at the University of New York at Buffalo, Engineering Science in 1976 and his Ph. D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University in 1981. He joined Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois in 1981 and is a full professor. His work has been generously supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force in the areas of reactive flow, shock physics, modeling, advanced simulation and miniaturization of explosive technology. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Institute of Physics and Associate Fellow of AIAA.
Greg Elliott: He received his M.Sc. (Eng) in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 from The Ohio State University. He also received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1993 from The Ohio State University. After a two-year post-doc he joined the Department of mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University as an assistant professor in 1995 and was promoted to associate professor in 2000. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an associate professor. His research interests include the development of laser diagnostics, experimental fluid mechanics, compressible flow, turbulence, combustion, and plasmas.
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Murphy, M.J., Adrian, R.J., Stewart, D.S. et al. Visualization of blast waves created by exploding bridge wires. J Vis 8, 125–135 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03181655
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