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

67 citations · 129 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2026

Ultra-high-speed chemiluminescence tomography of spinning-mode detonation waves

Amit K. Singh, Mateo Gomez, Kevin Y. Cho +2

This work presents a chemiluminescence tomography campaign to reconstruct time-resolved, three-dimensional reacting structures in detonation waves propagating through ethylene-base…

math.DS2025

Degree-of-freedom and optimization-dynamic effects on the observability of Kuramoto-Sivashinsky systems

Noah B. Frank, Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford, Samuel J. Grauer

Simulations of chaotic systems can only produce high-fidelity trajectories if the initial and boundary conditions are well specified. When these conditions are unknown but measurem…

physics.flu-dyn2025

On the joint estimation of flow fields and particle properties from Lagrangian data

Ke Zhou, Samuel J. Grauer

We numerically investigate the feasibility and limits of jointly estimating flow fields and unknown particle properties (e.g., position, size, and density) from Lagrangian particle…

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.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Neural inference of fluid-structure interactions from sparse off-body measurements

Rui Tang, Ke Zhou, Jifu Tan +1

We report a novel physics-informed neural framework for reconstructing unsteady fluid-structure interactions (FSI) from sparse, single-phase observations of the flow. Our approach…

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-dyn2023★ 7 cited

Flow reconstruction and particle characterization from inertial Lagrangian tracks

Ke Zhou, Samuel J. Grauer

This text describes a method to simultaneously reconstruct flow states and determine particle properties from Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) data. LPT is a popular measurement…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 24 cited

Stochastic particle advection velocimetry (SPAV): theory, simulations, and proof-of-concept experiments

Ke Zhou, Jiaqi Li, Jiarong Hong +1

Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is widely used to measure time-resolved, three-dimensional velocity and pressure fields in fluid dynamics research. Inaccurate localization and…

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…