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candle flame convection

Warm air rising from candles is visualized using a single mirror color Schlieren system with the color array aligned in a vertical direction which makes the system particularly sensitive to density gradients in the horizontal direction.

Contributor: Prof. Gary Settles of the Gas Dynamics Lab, Penn State University.

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