Location: 120 Howe Hall

Research Interests:

• Geophysical flow

• Free convection

• Turbulent flow

• Laser diagnostics

Equipment:

• Subsonic wind tunnel

• Argon ion laser

• PIV Nd:YAG laser

• Position sensitive photodiode

• Photomultiplier tube

• PIV system

• Free Convection Observation Tank

Current Research Projects:

• Investigation of Supersonic Airflow using Nonresonant Laser-Induced Electrostrictive Gratings, Allan Kisoma and Andrew Tessier

Previous Research Projects:

• Investigation of Nonresonant Laser-Induced Electrostrictive Gratings for Temperature Measurements in Air at Subatmospheric Pressure, Jon Flittner and Mike McErlean

• Application of the Small Aperture Beam Technique to the Free Convection Generated by a Heated Cylinder, Allan Kisoma, Piquet Thengtrirat, and Robin Zheng

• Application of the Small Aperture Beam Technique to a Heated Cylinder in Cross Flow, Blake Anderson, Jason Fitzsimmons, Jon Flittner, Derek Kosciolek, Mike McErlean, and Ray Sweeney

• Advancement of the Small Aperture Beam Technique for Density Measurements, Kari Chachula

• Analysis of Laser Diagnostic Measurements of a High-Speed Turbulent Missile Flow, Blake Anderson and Jon Flittner