Investigation of visible to near-infrared high-speed cameras for thermography in hypersonic testing

LG Alemany, CM James, TG Cullen, Y Liu - Experiments in Fluids, 2023 - Springer
This work investigates the implementation of visible to near-infrared high-speed
thermography for the measurement of heat flux over blunt-body test models in an expansion …

Testing of ultra fast response, durable co-axial thermocouples for high enthalpy impulse facilities

CM James, B Birch, DR Smith, TG Cullen… - AIAA Aviation 2019 …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Fast response heat flux gauges relying on the semi-infinite heat conduction principle have
commonly been used to study heat flux in impulse test facilities such as expansion tubes …

Scaled Apollo capsule heat flux measurements in the X3 expansion tube

CM James, R Ravichandran, DR Smith… - AIAA Aviation 2020 …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Planetary entry thermal protection systems are a critical and mission limiting technology for
space exploration. Of special importance for super orbital Earth return, are the high velocity …

Infrared thermography on a biconic model in Hypersonic expansion tube flows

TG Cullen, CM James, R Ravichandran… - AIAA Scitech 2021 …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-0873. vid This paper reports on a
series of experiments in the X2 expansion tube at the University of Queensland wherein a …