Development and Implementation of Optical Diagnostics for Aerospace Research and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The development and implementation of increasing advanced optical-based diagnostics for accurate and comprehensive measurements in research associated with various aspects of aerodynamics, flow control, and combustion processes have seen rapid advancements been made in the past decade.  This is made possible through significant improvements in camera and optical systems, illumination sources, understanding in optical principles, post-processing algorithms, and computing speed, among many other factors. These advancements enable researchers to capture high-fidelity and/or high-speed measurements at unprecedented accuracy levels with relative ease and/or lower the overall system cost (and therefore barrier to entry) for many research entities, which allows greater access to research tools than before. Through these technological improvements, many new ideas surrounding novel optical diagnostics in terms of hardware and software have surfaced, be they associated with 2D/3D geometrical and/or flow measurements. Coupled with recent advances in AI, machine learning, data mining, and big data analysis, researchers are now able to extract measurement details that might have not been possible before.

This Special Issue welcomes contributions related to the developments and/or applications of optical diagnostics for use in aerodynamics, flow control, or combustion research.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

1. Developments of novel optical diagnostics for aerospace applications;
2. Fundamental and aerospace industry applications of optical diagnostics;
3. 2D/3D measurements related to aerospace metrology or flow measurements;
4. Advances in imaging system technology;
5. Advances in post-processing tools and algorithms;
6. Developments and/or implementations of AI, machine learning, data-mining, and big data analysis related to optical diagnostics.

Dr. Tze How New
Dr. Shengxian Shi
Guest Editors

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• optical systems
• imaging systems
• illumination systems
• optical diagnostics
• applied optics
• metrology
• aerodynamics
• combustion
• fluid dynamics
• flow control