View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0869. vid The reconstruction of
globally-consistent hypersonic boundary layer disturbance modes from experimental …

A method is presented to acquire self-aligned focusing schlieren (SAFS) images when the
optical axis of the instrument is positioned at a non-normal incidence angle to the …

As part of NATO STO AVT-346 “Predicting Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition on
Complex Geometries,” coordinated experimental and computational studies were conducted …

A colinear focused laser differential interferometer (FLDI) and self-aligned focusing schlieren
(SAFS) system has been assembled and tested in the laboratory, using a turbulent jet of …

A self-aligned focusing schlieren (SAFS) system combines the field of view of a conventional
schlieren system with the defocus blur of a focusing schlieren system away from the object …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0098. vid A series of experiments
were performed in the Air Force Research Laboratory Mach-6 Ludwieg Tube using a …

A cone-cylinder-flare model with sharp and blunt nosetips was tested at the AFRL Mach-6
Ludwieg Tube at a 0\(^{\circ}\) angle of attack. Surface-pressure fluctuation measurements …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-3706. vid This work experimentally
investigated the second-mode boundary-layer instability over four different material inserts …

Low and high-frequency surface techniques characterized a Mach 4 to 6 nozzle with an
accelerating boundary layer. Schlieren imaging was used to describe the starting behavior …

A hybrid femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (fs/ps CARS)
system was developed for quantitative measurements of temperature in a laboratory-scale …