TURBULENT DIFFUSION OF SMALL PARTICLES.

Abstract

Racks to hold the cameras and power supplies and boxes to house the flash tubes have been constructed. The test section of the wind tunnel has been aligned and modified to accommodate the 90 illumination system. A particle injector utilizing a vertical diffuser to suspend a cloud of particles has been used to inject particles into the wind tunnel at a rate of one every 2 to 5 seconds. A particle detector utilizing a laser and photovoltaic cell has detected 50-micron glass beads exiting from a small tube. An amplifier was built to match the output of the photocell to the input of the timing system. Calculations were made that showed that for a 5% error in the correlation, a 48% standard deviation of particle diameters is acceptable. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 08, 1967
Accession Number
AD0825986

Entities

People

  • William H. Snyder

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Cells
  • Detectors
  • Diameters
  • Diffusers
  • Diffusion
  • Flash Lamps
  • Illumination
  • Injectors
  • Particles
  • Photoelectric Cells (Semiconductor)
  • Power Supplies
  • Solar Cells
  • Turbulent Diffusion
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy