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Description This Schlieren photograph shows the thermal convection plume rising from an ordinary candle in still air. The plume is initially laminar, but transition to turbulence occurs in the upper 1/3 of the image. The image was made using a 1-meter-diameter schlieren mirror by Dr. Gary Settles
Date 10 March 2009, 16:59:35
Source Own work
Author Gary Settles
Attribution Creative Commons 3.0
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