Advanced Flow Diagnostic Tools

Dear Colleagues,

The turn of the century has seen tremendous progress in flow diagnostic tools as a result of the even more staggering improvement in optical illumination, detection devices, as well as data processing techniques. For instance, advances in laser-based optical methods over the last 40 years, including PIV, LDA, PSP/TSP, PLIF, FLEET, Rayleigh Scattering, etc., have made major breakthroughs in the analysis of complex flows containing shock waves, strong expansions, shear layers, vortex organizations, and recirculation regions. There are still many other advanced flow diagnostic technologies that have emerged in aerodynamics and have been widely used in the automobile, aircraft, propulsion, and turbomachinery industry. Although those methods are still under development, they are also opening new possibilities for the measurement and analysis of flow fields that seem too difficult (or even impossible) to achieve using conventional techniques.

This Special Issue will be a collection of contributions that reflect the latest efforts in the development and application of advanced and/or novel flow diagnostic tools with potential applications (or directly linked) to wind tunnel and flight tests, combustion flow, multiphase flow, heat transfer flow, etc. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Laser-based optical measurement techniques;
• Flow visualization techniques;
• Non-intrusive measurement of pressure, skin friction, heat transfer, and deformation at the surface;
• Advanced measurement methods of aerodynamic forces and moments (magnetic suspension balance and cryogenic balance);
• Flow diagnostic tools under extreme conditions (ultra-high-speed, low/high temperature; space condition, etc.);
• Advanced data processing methods for flow diagnostic tools.

Dr. Lin Chen
Guest Editor

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