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An ultra-high-speed imaging system based on the background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique has been built in order to capture a laser-induced underwater shock wave. This BOS technique is able to provide two-dimensional density-gradient field of fluid and requires a simple setup. The imaging system consists of an ultra-high-speed video camera, a laser stroboscope, and a patterned background. This system takes images every \(0.2\,\upmu \hbox {s}\). Furthermore, since the density change of water disturbed by the shock is exceedingly small, the system has high spatial resolution \(\sim \!\!10\,\upmu \hbox {m/pixel}\). Using this BOS system, temporal position of a shock wave is examined. The position agrees well with that measured by conventional shadowgraph, which indicates that the high-speed imaging system can successfully capture the instantaneous position of the underwater shock wave that propagates with the speed of about 1500 m/s. The local density gradient can be determined up to \(O(10^3\,\hbox {kg/m}^4)\), which is confirmed by the gradient estimated from the pressure time history measured by a hydrophone.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26709007. We thank Keisuke Hayasaka for his assistance with the experiments.
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Yamamoto, S., Tagawa, Y. & Kameda, M. Application of background-oriented schlieren (BOS) technique to a laser-induced underwater shock wave. Exp Fluids 56, 93 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-015-1960-4
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