Design and evaluation of an optical port assembly for the aerodynamic duct at the CFFF

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5106972

Cook, R L ^[1]; Lineberry, J T ^[2]

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1. Mississippi State Univ., MS (United States). Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Lab.
2. Tennessee Univ., Tullahoma, TN (United States). Space Inst.

During 1991, a cooperative research effort between the Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory (DIAL) at Mississippi State University (MSU) the The University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSU) was undertaken to implement DIAL diagnostics into the upstream portion of the Coal-Fired Flow Facility (CFFF) Low Mass Flow (LMF) test train. This effort was initiated at the request of the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide developmental work on the application and use of non-intrusive, remote advanced diagnostics for MHD. It was a major undertaking by the research staffs of the two organizations, which required programmatic planning, equipment design, test planning and, finally, experimentation. This paper summarizes the cooperative research, which concluded in the implementation of DIAL's laser diagnostics into the CFFF LMF supersonic aerodynamic duct. Details on the design, testing, and on-line operation of an optical port assembly that was specially built for this application are given. The results of the first measurements that were obtained with this equipment in CFFF LMF tests LMF5-D and LMF5-E are presented.

• Research Organization: Mississippi State Univ., MS (United States). Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Lab.
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-80ET15601
• OSTI ID: 5106972
• Report Number(s): CONF-920677-12; ON: DE92015366
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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