light-sheet method
light-sheet method
[′līt ‚shēt ‚meth·əd] (fluid mechanics)
A method of flow visualization in which a light beam is broadened by a cylindrical lens to illuminate a plane sheet of fluid; the light scattered from tracer particles in the illuminated plane exhibits the flow pattern.
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