Title: Temperature- and Pressure-Sensitive Paint Measurements in Short-Duration
Hypersonic Flow
Author(s): J. P. Hubner; B. F. Carroll; K. S. Schanze; H. F.
Ji; M. S. Holden
Source: AIAA Journal Volume: 39
Number: 4 Page: 654 -- 659
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Abstract: Surface temperatures and pressures were measured on
an elliptic cone lifting
body in a hypersonic flowfield using thin-film ( 5 m) temperature-
and pressure-sensitive
paints (TSPs and PSPs). The tests were conducted in the 48-inch
hypersonic shock tunnel
(48-inch HST) at Calspan-University of Buffalo Research Center
and were part of a more
comprehensive experimental study examining the three-dimensional
characteristics of
laminar, transitional, and turbulent flow over the model. Measurement
opportunity in the
48-inch HST was limited by the short duration of steady freestream
conditions of the driven
gas; image acquisition times were 3 ms. Images of the coatings
applied to the broad side
of the symmetric elliptic cone were calibrated with in situ static
pressure and surface-film
temperature measurements. The TSP results illustrate the higher
heat transfer rates and
change in boundary-layer transition over the model surface caused
by the nose geometry,
and the PSP results show a mild pressure gradient over the interrogated
surface region.
Submillisecond TSP acquisition using a high-speed imager demonstrated
the feasibility of
measuring the surface temperature rise.