JoshTheEngineer | How To: Find Mach Number from a Picture (Part 3) @JoshTheEngineer | Uploaded January 2016 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Want to look at a picture of a bullet/plane/etc. and be able to approximate the Mach number? In the previous videos on this topic (linked to below), I showed three different methods of approximating the Mach number from angles measured in a Schlieren image.
Part 1:
goo.gl/50saau
Part 2:
goo.gl/gqK19N
For this video, I have updated my Taylor-Maccoll code such that it takes the shock angle and cone angle as inputs (I find them using the Measure Tool from GIMP), and computes the freestream Mach number. This is best way to approximate the Mach number from an image (for conical flow).
I will be explaining and posting my code that I used here in a future video, when I get around to finishing up the derivation of the Taylor-Maccoll equation. If you want to be notified of future videos, please subscribe to my channel.
Photo Credits:
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
University of Sydney, 1998-2004
By NASA Glenn Research Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
NASA photo
nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/shock_and_awesome.html
Want to look at a picture of a bullet/plane/etc. and be able to approximate the Mach number? In the previous videos on this topic (linked to below), I showed three different methods of approximating the Mach number from angles measured in a Schlieren image.
Part 1:
goo.gl/50saau
Part 2:
goo.gl/gqK19N
For this video, I have updated my Taylor-Maccoll code such that it takes the shock angle and cone angle as inputs (I find them using the Measure Tool from GIMP), and computes the freestream Mach number. This is best way to approximate the Mach number from an image (for conical flow).
I will be explaining and posting my code that I used here in a future video, when I get around to finishing up the derivation of the Taylor-Maccoll equation. If you want to be notified of future videos, please subscribe to my channel.
Photo Credits:
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
University of Sydney, 1998-2004
By NASA Glenn Research Center [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
NASA photo
nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/shock_and_awesome.html