New interfacial fluid thickness approach in aero-optics with applications to compressible turbulence

AIAA Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1973-1981

  Catrakis, Hans J ^a,b   Aguirre, Roberto C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Henry Samueli School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; LASER BEAMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFRONTS;

AERO-OPTICS; INTERFACIAL FLUID THICKNESS (IFT); OPTICAL PATH LENGTH (OPL); REFRACTIVE FLUID INTERFACES;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS);

EID: 7044224430     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.547     Document Type: Review

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