Laser Doppler detection systems for gas velocity measurement
Gas flow velocity measurement by coherent detection of scattered laser radiation from small particles suspended in fluid, using Doppler effect
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Gas flow velocity measurement by coherent detection of scattered laser radiation from small particles suspended in fluid, using Doppler effect
Three dimensional laser Doppler instrument measures both local mean and fluctuating gas velocity of air flow. Technique is used for measuring atmospheric wind velocity and turbulence. Under certain conditions liquid flows can be measured.
Carbon dioxide CW laser-Doppler velocimeter for detecting aircraft wing tip trailing vortices by measuring atmospheric aerosols backscatter
Three dimensional laser Doppler velocity instrument for mean velocity and turbulence measurements in subsonic jet shear layer
Computer program evaluates radiation from an axisymmetric gas body with water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and solid carbon particles as radiating constituents, and hydrogen as a nonradiating constituent. The program provides a convenient method of evaluating a great many problems of radiation from rocket exhaust plumes.
Computer programs for predicting radiative heat transfer for Saturn exhaust plumes
Laser Doppler instrumentation for turbulent velocity measurement
IR radiation heat transfer from rocket exhaust plumes, discussing absorption and emission characteristics
Band model for calculating radiative heat transfer from Saturn exhaust plumes
Laser-Doppler gas velocity instrumentation
Inhomogeneous radiant heat transfer from Saturn rocket exhaust plumes
Calculation of spectral transmittance for a particular inhomogeneous gas path is made by combining known data on gases at constant temperature, pressure, and concentration. The spectral transmittances of the inhomogeneous plume gases is needed to calculate the heat radiated from the exhaust plume to the rocket base of a multiple engine rocket.
Utilizing the large magnitudes of Doppler shifts obtainable from a CW gas laser, local velocity vectors are measured by using the visible light from the laser. This technique is applicable for the measurement of velocity of any moving surface.
Absorption coefficient of carbon from rocket exhaust and large booster base heating
Infrared spectral transmittances for determining radiant energy transfer from exhaust gases to rocket base
Continuous wave gas laser Doppler flow meter for gas velocity measurement
Injection of foreign gas into laminar air boundary layer - heat and mass transfer problems solved by simple calculation method of similarity equations
Ablation analysis of tektites and their parent bodies by fusion of opaque siliceous stone into glass by aerodynamic heating to prove tektite origin