Planar fluorescence imaging and three-dimensional reconstructions of capsule reaction-control-system jets

AIAA Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 803-812

  Inman, Jennifer A ^a,c   Danehy, Paul M ^a,c   Alderfer, David W ^a,c   Buck, Gregory M ^a,d   McCrea, Andrew ^b,c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Advanced Sensing and Optical Measurement Branch   (United States)

^d Aerothermodynamics Branch

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISUALIZATION; DATA SETS; FLOWFIELD VISUALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GAS DENSITY; JET FLOW; NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER; PLANAR LASER; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; RE-ENTRY VEHICLES; REACTION-CONTROL; TEMPORALLY RESOLVED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; GAS DYNAMICS; JETS; LOCATION; NASA; REENTRY; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 67649230010     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.37116     Document Type: Article

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