{"title":"Oil-Film interferometry measurement of skin friction - analysis summary and description of Matlab program","authors":"J. Naughton, J. Robinson, V. Durgesh","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.2003.1274866","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The measurement of wall shear stress is increasingly recognized as a critical element of aerodynamic testing. Wall shear stress is necessary to characterize fully a wall-bounded flow, to provide critical information necessary for computational simulations, and to serve as a sensitive quantity for use in flow-control applications. Oil-film interferometry is a method that can be used to measure wall shear stress quickly and accurately, but the analysis of the interferograms is complex and has limited the methods use. OILFILMTOOL is a Matlab program that has been developed to simplify the analysis process. The analysis steps required to determine wall shear stress from an interferogram obtained using oil-film interferometry are discussed, and those methods currently implemented in OILFILMTOOL are highlighted. The application of OILFILMTOOL to interferograms acquired on the surface of a wedge body is discussed. It is hoped that, by implementing the complex analysis process in a simple-to-use program, the use of oil-film interferometry in aerodynamic test facilities will become more widespread.","PeriodicalId":166420,"journal":{"name":"20th International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities, 2003. ICIASF '03.","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"13","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"20th International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities, 2003. ICIASF '03.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.2003.1274866","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The measurement of wall shear stress is increasingly recognized as a critical element of aerodynamic testing. Wall shear stress is necessary to characterize fully a wall-bounded flow, to provide critical information necessary for computational simulations, and to serve as a sensitive quantity for use in flow-control applications. Oil-film interferometry is a method that can be used to measure wall shear stress quickly and accurately, but the analysis of the interferograms is complex and has limited the methods use. OILFILMTOOL is a Matlab program that has been developed to simplify the analysis process. The analysis steps required to determine wall shear stress from an interferogram obtained using oil-film interferometry are discussed, and those methods currently implemented in OILFILMTOOL are highlighted. The application of OILFILMTOOL to interferograms acquired on the surface of a wedge body is discussed. It is hoped that, by implementing the complex analysis process in a simple-to-use program, the use of oil-film interferometry in aerodynamic test facilities will become more widespread.