Linear array focused-laser differential interferometry for single-shot multi-point flow disturbance measurements

M Gragston, T Price, K Davenport, Z Zhang… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, a modification of the well-known focused-laser differential interferometer (FLDI)
is demonstrated, with the primary focus being increasing the number of probed locations …

An m by n FLDI Array for Single-Shot Multipoint Disturbance Measurements in High-Speed Flows

M Gragston, TJ Price, K Davenport… - AIAA Scitech 2021 …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-0599. vid In this work, the
capabilities of the traditional focused-laser differential interferometry (FLDI) technique are …

Development of a self-aligned compact focusing Schlieren system for NASA test facilities

BF Bathel, JM Weisberger - AIAA SciTech 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0560. vid A novel compact,
inherently self-aligned focusing schlieren system is presented for use in experiments that …

Hypersonic boundary-layer instability on a highly cooled cone. Part I: Q-FLDI measurement and instability calculations

A Hameed, D Shekhtman, N Parziale… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0734. vid In this paper, a Q-FLDI
system was constructed to correlate disturbances inside and outside of the boundary layer …

Analysis of the amplitude response of a two-point and a multi-point focused laser differential interferometer

BF Bathel, JM Weisberger, GC Herring… - AIAA SciTech 2021 …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-0598. vid Experiments were
performed with two different focused laser differential interferometer (FLDI) instruments to …

Hypersonic boundary-layer instability characterization and transition downstream of distributed roughness

Y Gui, C Zhang, X Li, D Xu, J Wu - Experiments in Fluids, 2023 - Springer
The ablation of thermal protection systems in hypersonic vehicles would generate randomly
distributed surface roughness, which prominently influences laminar-turbulent boundary …

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 …

Simultaneous focused laser differential interferometry and high-speed schlieren in a Mach 6 flow

BF Bathel, GC Herring, JM Weisberger… - Measurement …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An instrument is demonstrated that is capable of simultaneous and independent flow density
fluctuation measurements over the same line-of-sight by combining two optical techniques …

Global analysis of nonlinear second-mode development in a Mach-6 boundary layer from high-speed schlieren data

CE Sousa, RE Kennedy, RA King, BF Bathel… - Experiments in …, 2024 - Springer
The second-mode instability on a 7° half-angle sharp cone at Mach 6 is analyzed using high-
speed calibrated schlieren imagery at a frame rate near the expected fundamental …

Focused laser differential interferometry transfer functions for complex density disturbance fields

A Hameed, NJ Parziale - AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-2907. vid In this paper, we re-
derive some known transfer functions to reduce FLDI data. We derive additional transfer …