Polychromatic Hilbert diagnostics of phase and temperature disturbances, induced by candle flame in air

Abstract

The work is motivated by the scientific and practical significance of the problem of non-disturbing diagnostics of phase and temperature fields induced in a gas medium by a flame of a torch (candle). The spatial conditions in which the fields are studied satisfy the model of axial symmetry of the torch associated with the vertical orientation of the candle. A method adequate to the problem to be solved has been developed, based on polychromatic Hilbert visualization of phase optical density fields, measurement of the temperature profile in selected sections of the medium under study, registration and selection of RAW images recorded by the photomatrix in RGB channels. The visualized Hilbert structures contain information on the phase optical density perturbations induced by the temperature field. The reliability of the results is confirmed by comparing the experimentally obtained hilbertograms and those reconstructed from phase structures using the Abel transform.