Development and Application of Oxygen Flow Tagging for Velocity Measurements and Flow Visualization in Turbulent Three-Dimensional Supersonic Flows

Abstract

Flow tagging by Raman Excitation plus Laser-Induced Electronic Fluorescence (RELIEF) and ultraviolet Rayleigh scattering have been developed to measure instantaneous velocity profiles, temperatures, and density cross sections in air. Experiments have been undertaken in supersonic free jets and supersonic boundary layers. In these experiments lines have been written into air to give the first direct images of velocity structure in supersonic free shear layers, and UV Rayleigh scattering has been used to achieve the first measurements of instantaneous two-dimensional density cross sections in free jets and in supersonic boundary layers. Keywords: Supersonic flow; Turbulence; Flow visualization; Three-dimensional compressible turbulent flow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 30, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214491

Entities

People

  • Richard B. Miles

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Dye Lasers
  • Electro-Optics
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • High Pressure
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Scattering
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene