An Investigation of the Use of Holography in Studying Supersonic Flow in Inlets,

Abstract

Experiments have investigated the usefulness of holographic interferometry as a flow visualization technique for studying supersonic flow in air inlets. A bench-scale two-dimensional supersonic (Mach 3) nozzle diffuser with plexiglass sidewalls was used to simulate inlet flow phenomena. One series of tests was performed with a rectangular tab of metal on the bottom wall of the channel to cause boundary-layer separation. A second series was run with a cone model mounted in the center of the channel. A real image technique of reconstruction was used to obtain photographs of the holographic interferograms from each test series. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 20, 1973
Accession Number
AD0763335

Entities

People

  • W. C. Ragsdale
  • W. C. Spring Iii

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Flow
  • Holography
  • Images
  • Interferograms
  • Interferometry
  • Photographs
  • Supersonic Flow
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow