{"title":"Techniques for using pressure-sensitive paint in shock tunnel facilities","authors":"J. Hubner, B. Carroll, K. Schanze, Hia Feng Ji","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644650","url":null,"abstract":"Full-field surface pressures were measured in a small-scale, low pressure-ratio shock tube using a fast-response pressure-sensitive paint (PSP). Various issues regarding the PSP formulation, measurement uncertainty, and optical system design are discussed in detail. The pressure measurements were acquired during 15 ms time-envelopes of steady flow conditions following the passage of normal shocks and expansion regions. The PSP response time was on the order of 3 to 6 ms. Overall uncertainties in the pressure measurements ranged between 3 and 5% over a one atmosphere pressure range.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132270924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods and instrumentation for the investigation of nonstationary processes in liquid-propellant rocket engines","authors":"Alexey Karpov","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644762","url":null,"abstract":"At the nonstationary regimes of the liquid rocket engine operation essential fraction of the pulse duration relate to the transitional (preflame and postflame) processes which accompany the engine switching-on and switching-off. Some diagnostics methods and instrumentation have been developed for investigation of the processes in the combustion chambers, nozzles and jets of the spacecraft engines under nonstationary conditions. On the basis of experimentally obtained spatial, spectral and time characteristics of jet self-radiation in the visible and infrared spectral areas, the nonequilibrium degree of flow in the nozzle, the parameters distribution over a cross section, sizes and concentration of the carbon particles have been evaluated. Sizes, concentration and phase status of the propellant particles were determined by scattering characteristics of the laser light passing through the medium under test. A film thermometry was used for investigation of the engine thermal status at pulse modes of operation and for determination of heat fluxes on the surface of the chamber elements.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134139980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental setup, measurement and analysis of the onset of compressor flow instabilities in an aeroengine","authors":"B. Hoss, L. Fottner","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644672","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decade great efforts have been undertaken to understand and control the flow structure in a compressor working close to its stability limit. Most of this research work was done at low-speed compressors in isolated test rig facilities. This paper presents the experimental setup, measurement and different analysing techniques of highly unsteady pressure signals during the onset process of compressor flow instabilities in the two-spool bypass aeroengine LARZAC 04 at various power settings. Several analysing techniques such as temporal low-pass and band-pass filtering, temporal and spatial Fourier transform and a wavelet analysing technique are applied. While filtering and the Fourier spectrum gives a good insight into the physical background of the stall inception process-but with very little warning time-the wavelet frequency spectrum indicates the approach of the stalling process a few hundred rotor revolutions (corresponding to 1-2 seconds in time) in advance independently of the type of precursor. Depending on the rotor speed three different types of stall inception processes were observed within the low pressure compressor. While a low-speed stall originates from spike-type precursors, long wavy pressure fluctuations corresponding to modal waves were observed prior to stall at mid-speed. At high-speed the rotor shaft unbalancing dominates the stall inception process as an external forcing function.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114823478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correcting luminescent paint measurements for self-illumination","authors":"W. Ruyten","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644640","url":null,"abstract":"One of the potential problems in pressure-sensitive or other luminescent paint measurements is self-illumination of the test article. If uncorrected, such self-illumination can lead to measurement errors. Here, a numerical correction procedure is discussed for both diffuse paints and paints with arbitrary reflection characteristics. Pros and cons of the two models are discussed. For the diffuse case, a calibration procedure is described, as well as the implementation of the correction algorithm in the overall data processing software. A numerical case study is presented for a specific example, the Dornier Alpha jet.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121039573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualization of the quiet test region in a supersonic wind tunnel using luminescent paint","authors":"K. Asai, T. Kunimasu, Y. Iijima","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644667","url":null,"abstract":"A temperature-sensitive luminescent paint technique has been used to visualize boundary-layer transition on a 10-degree cone model in the 0.2-m Supersonic Wind Tunnel at National Aerospace Laboratory. A luminescent paint based on EuTTA was applied on the model surface using airbrush. The paint coating was excited by a Xenon light and the luminescence image was acquired using a high resolution cooled-CCD camera. To enhance thermal signature across transition, tunnel flow was heated by a sudden shutdown of cooling water supply to heat exchanger. Two images were taken for each condition, one is transient image taken in heating process and the other is reference image taken in steady condition. By ratioing these two images, global transition patterns on the cone have been visualized as the edges of brightness. From transition images at various model locations in the test section, it was found that transition remains at a fixed spatial location with respect to the tunnel. This indicates that the cone transition is induced by radiated noise propagating from turbulent boundary layers on the tunnel walls. Effects of the stagnation pressure were also studied over the range from 55 to 150 kPa. The extent of quiet test region was found to be strongly sensitive to the pressure or unit Reynolds number. At the NAL 0.2-m SWT, natural transition did not occur on the cone at lower values of unit Reynolds number.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123027216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back step flow measurements using triple split film probe","authors":"N. Alemdaroglu, O. Karatekin","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644683","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of experimental investigations performed for flow over a backward facing step using a triple split film probe. The method of using the triple split film probe to measure the velocity in the recirculation region of a backward facing step has shown to be accurate, reliable, repetitive and fast. Besides measurements of mean velocity vectors without the directional ambiguity, the method has also proven to be accurate to measure the normal and shear stresses in the recirculating flow.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127704764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a stress wave thrust balance for a hypersonic shock tunnel","authors":"S. Tuttle, J. Simmons, D. Mee","doi":"10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIASF.1997.644754","url":null,"abstract":"The development of a thrust balance for the measurement of the net thrust produced in a scramjet nozzle is described. The balance has been designed and tested in the T4 shock tunnel at the University of Queensland. Numerical simulations of the balance and measurements made in the shock tunnel demonstrate that the thrust is correctly recovered when the loading in the nozzle is symmetric, but unexpected pressure asymmetry in some cases prevented successful recovery of the thrust.","PeriodicalId":122871,"journal":{"name":"ICIASF'97 Record. International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115326469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}