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Laser-induced thermal-acoustic velocimetry with heterodyne detection

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Abstract

Laser-induced thermal acoustics (LITA) was used with heterodyne detection to measure simultaneously and in a single laser pulse the sound speed and flow velocity of NO2-seeded air in a low-speed wind tunnel up to Mach number M=0.1. The uncertainties of the velocity and the sound speed measurements were 0.2 m/s and 0.5%, respectively. Measurements were obtained through a nonlinear least-squares fit to a general, analytic closed-form solution for heterodyne-detected LITA signals from thermal gratings. Agreement between theory and experiment is exceptionally good.

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