Interpreting single-point and two-point focused laser differential interferometry in a turbulent jet

AP Ceruzzi, CP Cadou - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) and its relative two-point FLDI (2pFLDI) are
used to make density fluctuation and velocity measurements, respectively, in a canonical …

Quantitative focused laser differential interferometry with hypersonic turbulent boundary layers

EK Benitez, MP Borg, J Luke Hill, MT Aultman… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The effect of turbulent wind-tunnel-wall<? TeX 2pc 0pt?> boundary layers on density change
measurements obtained with focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) was studied …

Focused Laser Differential Interferometry: Recent Developments and Applications for Flow Measurements

EK Benitez, A Ceruzzi, M Gragston… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI), first introduced in the 1970s, has developed
into a powerful tool for the analysis of turbulent dynamics and fluctuations in fluid flows …

Optical-axis spatial sensitivity of a simulated focused laser differential interferometer

EK Benitez, MP Borg, C Rhodes, JS Jewell - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
A focused laser differential interferometer (FLDI) simulation was used to study the sensitivity
of the FLDI technique to a variety of factors. The model takes in a series of density fields and …

Development of two-point focused laser differential interferometry for applications in high-speed wind tunnels

A Ceruzzi - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) and its relative two-point focused laser
differential interferometry (2pFLDI) are completely non-intrusive (ie seedless) optical …

[HTML][HTML] Focused laser differential interferometry post-processing methodology for flowfields with circular symmetry

GP Camillo, A Wagner - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
An analytic methodology is presented to reconstruct the pressure waveform of flowfields with
circular symmetry from the phase shift detected with Focused Laser Differential …

Instability measurements on two cone-cylinder-flares at Mach 6

EK Benitez - 2021 - search.proquest.com
This research focuses on measurements of a convective shear-layer instability seen
naturally in quiet hypersonic flow. Experiments were carried out in the Boeing/AFOSR Mach …

Hypersonic transitional boundary-layer profile using a linear-array FLDI

EK Benitez, TJ Leger, MW Tufts, MP Borg… - AIAA Aviation 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-4253. vid Simultaneous density-
fluctuation measurements were made using a linear array focused laser differential …

Simulated focused laser differential interferometry of time-varying signals

EK Benitez, JS Jewell - AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1312. vid A model of a focused
laser differential interferometer (FLDI) was modified to simulate the response to time-varying …

Colinear focused laser differential interferometry and self-aligned focusing schlieren

JM Weisberger, BF Bathel - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A colinear focused laser differential interferometer (FLDI) and self-aligned focusing schlieren
(SAFS) system has been assembled and tested in the laboratory, using a turbulent jet of …