Application of focused laser differential interferometer to hypersonic boundary-layer instability study

Accurate prediction of hypersonic boundary-layer transition plays an important role in thermal protection system design of hypersonic vehicles.Restricted by the capability of spatial diagnostics for hypersonic boundary-layer study,quite a lot of problems of hypersonic boundary-layer transition,such as nonlinearity and receptivity,remain outstanding.This work reports the application of focused laser differential interferometer to instability wave development across hypersonic boundary-layer on a flared cone model.To begin with,the focused laser differential interferometer is designed and set up in a Mach number 6 hypersonic quiet wind tunnel with the focal point in the laminar boundary-layer of a 5 degree half-angle flared cone model.Afterwards,instability experiments are carried out by traversing the focal point throughout the hypersonic boundary-layer and the density fluctuation along the boundary-layer profile is measured and analyzed.The results show that three types of instability waves ranging from 10 k Hz to over 1 MHz are co-existing in the hypersonic boundary-layer,indicating the powerful capability of focused laser differential interferometer in dynamic response resolution for instability wave study in hypersonic flow regime;furthermore,quantitative analyses including spectra and bicoherence analysis of instability waves throughout the hypersonic boundary-layer for both cold and heated cone models are performed.

Grating lobes suppression method for stepped frequency GB-SAR system

A grating lobes suppression method for chirp-subpulse stepped frequency（CSSF） signals is proposed, which is applied to deformation monitoring using the ground based synthetic aperture radar（GB-SAR） system. This method is based on accurate estimation and correction of the phase and amplitude error along two dimensions（range and azimuth）, i.e., the error estimation inside the subpulse（in-subpulse error） and across the stepped frequency subpulses（cross-subpulse error） of transmitted CSSF signals. Validated both with simulated data and experimental data recorded in the deformation monitoring campaign, it can be seen that the method as well as the relative conclusions can be fully and effectively applied to most of the stepped frequency systems.