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Integrating CFD and Experiment in Aerodynamics - CFD4Aircraft

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The measurements are made on selected populations<br />

from which it is possible to deduce the local gas<br />

properties. The <strong>in</strong>tensity of the radiative signal gives a<br />

measure of the species concentration (or<br />

atom/molecule number density). The temperature is<br />

most often deduced from the broaden<strong>in</strong>g of a spectral<br />

l<strong>in</strong>e due to the Doppler effect <strong>in</strong>duced by the motion of<br />

the atoms or molecules (the energy conta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> this<br />

motion be<strong>in</strong>g proportional to the square root of the<br />

translational temperature). The velocity of the flow is<br />

deduced from the shift of the central frequency of the<br />

signal com<strong>in</strong>g from the Doppler effect produced by<br />

the bulk motion of the gas. Rotational <strong>and</strong> vibrational<br />

temperatures can also be deduced from an analysis<br />

of the reactive signal.<br />

Laser absorption. In this technique, the laser beam is<br />

tuned to a wave-length which is resonant with an<br />

absorb<strong>in</strong>g transition of a selected species. The<br />

attenuation of the beam pass<strong>in</strong>g through the test<br />

region is measured, the absorption of two or more<br />

wave-lengths be<strong>in</strong>g used to determ<strong>in</strong>e both the gas<br />

temperature <strong>and</strong> the density of the absorb<strong>in</strong>g species.<br />

This technique is simple to implement s<strong>in</strong>ce it requires<br />

an optical access which is just sufficient to allow the<br />

laser beam to pass through the test region.<br />

Production of a detectable <strong>and</strong> usable signal does not<br />

depend on the laser power, so that small power lasers<br />

can be used.<br />

analysis of the emitted spectrum constitutes a way to<br />

measure the vibrational <strong>and</strong> rotational temperatures <strong>in</strong><br />

this particular state. Species concentration is<br />

determ<strong>in</strong>ed from the amount of light conta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> a<br />

certa<strong>in</strong> narrow spectral b<strong>and</strong>.<br />

If the photon emerges from the <strong>in</strong>teraction at a shorter<br />

wave-length, hence higher energy, the process is<br />

called Raman Anti-Stokes scatter<strong>in</strong>g. This scatter<strong>in</strong>g<br />

process takes place with molecules of a higher<br />

energy level whose relative number is small; thus the<br />

Raman Anti-Stokes signal is naturally fa<strong>in</strong>ter than the<br />

Stokes signal. Raman signals are at a wave-length<br />

different from that of the laser <strong>and</strong> consequently are<br />

affected very little by background scatter<strong>in</strong>g. In<br />

addition, the Raman effect is an <strong>in</strong>teraction driven by<br />

the radiation field <strong>and</strong>, for this reason, is not affected<br />

by collisional quench<strong>in</strong>g (see below). The<br />

disadvantage of the technique is that the signal is<br />

very weak <strong>and</strong> that the laser beam is scattered <strong>in</strong> all<br />

directions of space. In order to elim<strong>in</strong>ate this serious<br />

disadvantage, stimulated Raman spectroscopy has<br />

been developed.<br />

Among these methods, the diode laser absorption<br />

technique consists of illum<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g a transverse section<br />

of the gas to be studied by an <strong>in</strong>frared light beam 27,28 .<br />

Doppler broaden<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> shift <strong>in</strong> wave-length of the<br />

species absorption l<strong>in</strong>es is used to obta<strong>in</strong> a measure<br />

of translational temperature <strong>and</strong> flow velocity<br />

Rayleigh scatter<strong>in</strong>g. In Rayleigh scatter<strong>in</strong>g the light<br />

from a laser beam is scattered at nearly the same<br />

frequency as that of the <strong>in</strong>cident light. By measur<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the <strong>in</strong>tensity of the scattered light <strong>and</strong> its spectral<br />

properties, it is possible to determ<strong>in</strong>e the density,<br />

pressure <strong>and</strong> velocity of the gas. Rayleigh scatter<strong>in</strong>g<br />

is probably the simplest method giv<strong>in</strong>g a local<br />

measurement of flow properties, s<strong>in</strong>ce it does not rely<br />

on any spectral resonance of a seed material (see LIF<br />

below). On the debit side, the method lacks spectral<br />

difference between the light scattered by the gas <strong>and</strong><br />

the background light so that it is difficult to dist<strong>in</strong>guish<br />

the useful signal from parasitic light.<br />

Raman scatter<strong>in</strong>g. When a photon strikes a molecule,<br />

it leaves a fraction of its energy to the molecule which<br />

is then raised to a higher energy state. When deexcitation<br />

occurs, a photon is released which has a<br />

longer wave-length, or lower energy, than the <strong>in</strong>cident<br />

photon. This process is called Raman Stokes<br />

scatter<strong>in</strong>g. The scattered light has a spectrum whose<br />

frequencies are characteristic of the molecule. Thus,<br />

Fig. 11: CARS measurements <strong>in</strong> a hypersonic<br />

w<strong>in</strong>d tunnel<br />

Stimulated Raman scatter<strong>in</strong>g. This technique is<br />

analogous to spontaneous Raman scatter<strong>in</strong>g, the<br />

scatter<strong>in</strong>g be<strong>in</strong>g produced by a first laser called the<br />

pump laser. The system now <strong>in</strong>cludes a second laser,<br />

the probe laser, whose frequency is shifted so that the<br />

differences <strong>in</strong> wave-length with the pump laser<br />

matches a resonant frequency of the molecule. This<br />

arrangement is used <strong>in</strong> Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman<br />

Scatter<strong>in</strong>g (CARS) <strong>in</strong> which measurements are made<br />

with the Anti-Stokes radiation 29 (see Fig. 11). The<br />

ma<strong>in</strong> advantage of CARS is that the scatter<strong>in</strong>g cross<br />

section is much higher than that of the spontaneous<br />

Raman effect by several orders of magnitude. In<br />

addition, the emitted light leaves <strong>in</strong> a preferred<br />

direction def<strong>in</strong>ed by the directions of the <strong>in</strong>cident<br />

beams. Thus, the useful light is collected more<br />

efficiently than <strong>in</strong> ord<strong>in</strong>ary Raman scatter<strong>in</strong>g. Analysis<br />

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