Abstract

This Letter describes, to the best of our knowledge, a new approach to flow tagging, nitric oxide (NO) Ionization Induced Flow Tagging and Imaging (NiiFTI), and presents the first experimental demonstration for single-shot velocimetry in a near Mach 6 hypersonic flow at 250 kHz. The mean velocity of 860 m/s was measured with a single-shot standard deviation of as low as 3.4 m/s and mean velocity uncertainty of 5.5 m/s. NiiFTI is characterized by a long fluorescence lifetime of nitrogen with $\frac {1}{e}$ decay of approximately 50 μs measured in air. The method relies on a single nanosecond laser combined with a high-speed camera, creating an opportunity for the utilization of a typical nitric oxide (NO) laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) experimental setup with minor modifications as well as pulse-burst lasers (PBLs) for ultrahigh repetition rates.

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