NASA and its Stakeholders are developing increasingly advanced aerospace vehicles. Performing a ground test is a standard method to quantify the loads a vehicle will experience during flight. In order to efficiently design these new advanced aerospace vehicles, more advanced tools are required. A new state-of-the-art technique to measure unsteady aerodynamics is currently being developed using pressure-sensitive paint (PSP), high-speed cameras, and advanced image processing methods. This new technique is capable of acquiring fluctuating pressures up to 20 kHz with continuous spatial resolution which enables direct calculation of unsteady loads. To successfully develop a new capability, a systems perspective must be taken. Recently, a connection was established between the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel and the NASA Advanced Supercomputer, both located at NASA Ames Research Center. The rapid transfer, processing, and display of high-speed PSP data from the wind tunnel demonstrated the ability to make real-time decisions in order to decrease design cycle time.
Revolutionizing Investigation of Unsteady Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Paint
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Technical Seminar ; 2021 ; virtual, US
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