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most citedEstimating density, velocity, and pressure fields in supersonic flow using physics-informed BOS

67 citations · 97 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.flu-dyn2025

Open-source BOS tomography dataset of high-speed flow over a flight body

Joseph P. Molnar, Amit K. Singh, Christopher J. Clifford +4

We present an open-source background-oriented schlieren dataset with 70 views of high-speed flow over a flight body. Sample analyses are performed using a neural-implicit reconstru…

physics.optics2025★ 8 cited

Unsupervised neural-implicit laser absorption tomography for quantitative imaging of unsteady flames

Joseph P. Molnar, Jiangnan Xia, Rui Zhang +2

This paper presents a novel neural-implicit approach to laser absorption tomography (LAT) with an experimental demonstration. A coordinate neural network is used to represent therm…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 7 cited

Neural optical flow for planar and stereo PIV

Andrew I. Masker, Ke Zhou, Joseph P. Molnar +1

Neural optical flow (NOF) offers improved accuracy and robustness over existing OF methods for particle image velocimetry (PIV). Unlike other OF techniques, which rely on discrete…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 14 cited

Forward and inverse modeling of depth-of-field effects in background-oriented schlieren

Joseph P. Molnar, Elijah J. LaLonde, Christopher S. Combs +3

We report a novel "cone-ray" model of background-oriented schlieren (BOS) imaging that accounts for depth-of-field effects. Reconstructions of the density field performed with this…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 67 cited

Estimating density, velocity, and pressure fields in supersonic flow using physics-informed BOS

Joseph P. Molnar, Lakshmi Venkatakrishnan, Bryan E. Schmidt +2

We report a new workflow for background-oriented schlieren (BOS), termed "physics-informed BOS," to extract density, velocity, and pressure fields from a pair of reference and dist…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 1 cited

Flow field tomography with uncertainty quantification using a Bayesian physics-informed neural network

Joseph P. Molnar, Samuel J. Grauer

We report a new approach to flow field tomography that uses the Navier-Stokes and advection-diffusion equations to regularize reconstructions. Tomography is increasingly employed t…