Still images, photographs and drawings, as well as movies are widely used in fluid mechanics and this has been true since the very early developments of this discipline. The intrinsic geometrical complexity of fluid flows, in particular when they are turbulent, explains this necessity of using visual representations to gain a physical understanding of the phenomena involved. The aesthetic appeal of images in fluid mechanics research is another reason why their use is more prevalent than in other fields of the physical sciences.
Les images fixes, photographies et dessins, aussi bien que les films et vidéos sont très largement utilisées en mécanique des fluides, et ce depuis les tous premiers développements de cette discipline. La complexité géométrique intrinsèque des écoulements, et tout particulièrement des écoulements turbulents, explique cette nécessité du recours à une représentation visuelle pour faire émerger une compréhension physique des phénomènes mis en jeu. Le caractère esthétique des images produites en recherche en mécanique des fluides est une autre raison pour laquelle leur utilisation est beaucoup plus importante que dans d'autres champs des sciences physiques.
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Mots-clés : Visualisation des écoulements, Images, Structures des écoulements
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Marc Fermigier. The use of images in fluid mechanics. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, A century of fluid mechanics: 1870–1970, Volume 345 (2017) no. 9, pp. 595-604. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2017.05.015. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2017.05.015/
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