The velocity field associated with the deflection of a laser beam passing through a heated incompressible boundary layer in the wall-normal direction was studied using variants of the classical proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) technique. Due to the heating of the boundary layer, temperature, density, and index of refraction fields were variable in the boundary layer and were instantaneously affected by turbulent coherent structures. The time-varying index of refraction field led to a time-varying beam path of a laser traversing the boundary layer; the final angle of the laser beam was measured simultaneously with particle image velocimetry. The relationship between coherent structures in the velocity field and the final beam angle was studied using conditional POD and space-time POD. Conditional POD was performed on the wall-normal velocity field using conditions of large upstream and downstream laser deflections. The modes from conditional POD were compared to modes from POD without conditions. Physical features within some conditional POD modes were found to be shifted in the streamwise direction compared to unconditioned modes, suggesting that the streamwise position of velocity features was correlated to laser deflection. Space-time POD resulted in the same modes as the conditional POD and showed the modes convecting in the streamwise direction without a significant change in the size of the structures. This suggested a hypothesis that the laser deflects when coherent structures reach particular positions relative to the laser position as the structures convect, aligning the largest local velocity and density gradients with the laser beam path.


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    Titel :

    Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for a Turbulent Boundary Layer with Aero-Optic Distortion


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    AIAA Journal ; 60 , 6 ; 3555-3564


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-04-04


    Format / Umfang :

    10 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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