Velocity Measurements and Flow Visualization in Turbulent Three-Dimensional Supersonic Flows Using Oxygen Flow Tagging.

Abstract

An axisymmetric jet flow facility with a laser fluorescence flow visualization system has been developed. Advanced techniques in nonlinear optics and spectroscopy are being used to track oxygen molecules for velocity measurements. Similar techniques are being used to determine the distribution of energy states of oxygen molecules for temperature measurements. Density can also be measured by observing the direct light scattering from both oxygen and nitrogen. The great advantage of these techniques is they are non-obtrusive, instantaneous, two-dimensional and require no seeding of the flow with foreign material. Keywords: Flow visualization, Laser fluorescence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 1988
Accession Number
ADA192551

Entities

People

  • Richard B. Miles

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluorescence
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Jet Flow
  • Lasers
  • Light Scattering
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Molecules
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Optics
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight