Toluene-based planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of temperature in hypersonic flows
Toluene-based planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of temperature in hypersonic flows
Planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging is carried out in a hypersonic gun tunnel at a freestream Mach number of 8.9 and Reynolds number of 47.4×106m?1 (N2 is the test gas). The fluorescence of toluene (C7H8) is correlated with the red shift of the emission spectra with increasing temperature. A two-colour approach is used where, following an excitation at 266 nm, emission spectra at two different bands are captured in separate runs using two different filters. Two different flow fields are investigated using this method: (i) hypersonic flow past a blunt nose, which is characterised by a bow shock with strong entropy effects, and (ii) an attached shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction induced by a flare located further downstream on the same blunt cylinder body. Measurements from as low as the freestream temperature of 68.3 K all the way up to 380 K (T??5.6T?) are obtained. The uncertainty at the higher temperature level is approximately ±15 %, while at the low end of the temperature, an additional ±15 % uncertainty is expected. Application of the technique is further challenged at high temperatures due to the exponentially reduced fluorescence quantum yields and the occurrence of toluene pyrolysis near the stagnation region (To=1150 K). Overall, results are found to be within 10 % agreement with the expected distributions, thus demonstrating suitability of the technique for hypersonic flow thermometry applications in low-enthalpy facilities
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Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram
5e69099f-2f39-4fdd-8a85-3ac906827052
June 2015
Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram
5e69099f-2f39-4fdd-8a85-3ac906827052
Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram
(2015)
Toluene-based planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging of temperature in hypersonic flows.
Experiments in Fluids, 56 (115), .
(doi:10.1007/s00348-015-1987-6).
Abstract
Planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging is carried out in a hypersonic gun tunnel at a freestream Mach number of 8.9 and Reynolds number of 47.4×106m?1 (N2 is the test gas). The fluorescence of toluene (C7H8) is correlated with the red shift of the emission spectra with increasing temperature. A two-colour approach is used where, following an excitation at 266 nm, emission spectra at two different bands are captured in separate runs using two different filters. Two different flow fields are investigated using this method: (i) hypersonic flow past a blunt nose, which is characterised by a bow shock with strong entropy effects, and (ii) an attached shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction induced by a flare located further downstream on the same blunt cylinder body. Measurements from as low as the freestream temperature of 68.3 K all the way up to 380 K (T??5.6T?) are obtained. The uncertainty at the higher temperature level is approximately ±15 %, while at the low end of the temperature, an additional ±15 % uncertainty is expected. Application of the technique is further challenged at high temperatures due to the exponentially reduced fluorescence quantum yields and the occurrence of toluene pyrolysis near the stagnation region (To=1150 K). Overall, results are found to be within 10 % agreement with the expected distributions, thus demonstrating suitability of the technique for hypersonic flow thermometry applications in low-enthalpy facilities
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 May 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 May 2015
Published date: June 2015
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Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377643
ISSN: 0723-4864
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