Planar flow visualizations were obtained in a wind tunnel test in the NASA Langley Research Center’s Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel using the laser-light-sheet method. This method uses a laser to illuminate fine particles generated in the wind tunnel to visualize flow structures. The test article was designed to simulate the separation of the two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) from the core stage of the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) at Mach 4 using a scale model. The test was run on of the SLS Block 1B Cargo (27005) configuration and the SLS Block 1B Crew (28005) configuration. Planar flow visualization was obtained only on the crew configuration. Air at pressures up to 1500 psi was used to simulate plumes from the booster separation motors (BSMs) located at the nose, and aft skirt of the two boosters. The facility free stream was seeded with water vapor, which condensed and froze into small ice crystals in the tunnel nozzle expansion. A continuous wave green (532 nm) laser sheet was used to illuminate the ice crystals, and the resulting Mie-scattered light was collected with a camera. The resulting images clearly identify shock waves and other flow features including BSM plume shapes. Measurements were acquired for different BSM pressures and booster separation locations.


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    Title :

    Laser Light Sheet Flow Visualization of the Space Launch System Booster Separation Test



    Conference:

    2019 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition ; 2019 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2019-01-07


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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