Photogrammetric techniques for aerospace applications

T Liu, AW Burner, TW Jones, DA Barrows - Progress in Aerospace …, 2012 - Elsevier
Photogrammetric techniques have been used for measuring the important physical
quantities in both ground and flight testing including aeroelastic deformation, attitude …

Surface oil flow visualization: Still useful after all these years

FK Lu - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2010 - Springer
A brief review of the use of surface oil flow visualization (SOFV) in wind tunnel testing is
provided. The first part of the review discusses the concept of flow separation in three …

Experimental characterization of smooth body flow separation over wall-mounted Gaussian bump

PD Gray, I Gluzman, FO Thomas, TC Corke - AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1209. vid This study was motivated
by the need for a benchmark data set for the characterization of smooth body separation …

Feasibility of skin-friction field measurements in a transonic wind tunnel using a global luminescent oil film

M Costantini, T Lee, T Nonomura, K Asai, C Klein - Experiments in Fluids, 2021 - Springer
The feasibility of skin-friction field measurements using the global luminescent oil-film skin-
friction field estimation method was evaluated for a challenging case of a supercritical airfoil …

A simplified photogrammetry procedure in oil-film interferometry for accurate skin-friction measurement over arbitrary geometries

I Gluzman, P Gray, K Mejia, TC Corke, FO Thomas - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
An accurate and straightforward skin-friction measurement procedure over a three-
dimensional (3D) bump geometry is proposed. The procedure employs oil-film …

Global surface pressure measurements of static and dynamic stall on a wind turbine airfoil at low Reynolds number

KJ Disotell, P Nikoueeyan, JW Naughton… - Experiments in …, 2016 - Springer
Recognizing the need for global surface measurement techniques to characterize the time-
varying, three-dimensional loading encountered on rotating wind turbine blades, fast …

Experimental characterization of an axisymmetric transonic separated flow for computational fluid dynamics validation

KP Lynch, BW Lance, NE Miller, MF Barone, SJ Beresh - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
An experimental characterization of transonic, turbulent, separated flow generated by an
axisymmetric model is presented, with intent for use as a computational validation case. The …

Luminescent oil film flow tagging skin friction meter applied to FAITH hill

NM Husen, T Liu, JP Sullivan - AIAA Journal, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
The luminescent oil film flow tagging skin friction meter is presented and used to collect time-
averaged spatially distributed skin friction data on the surface of NASA's FAITH model. The …

Relationship between secondary separation and surface pressure structure in swept shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction

T Liu, DM Salazar, LJ Mears, A Baldwin - Shock Waves, 2022 - Springer
A theoretical analysis is presented to elucidate the relationship between the skin friction
topology of the secondary separation bubble and surface pressure structure in the fin …

Wall shear stress sensor based on the optical resonances of dielectric microspheres

UK Ayaz, T Ioppolo, MV Ötügen - Measurement science and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We report an optical wall shear stress sensor based on the whispering gallery mode (WGM)
shifts of dielectric micro-resonators. The optical resonators are spheres with a typical …