Instrumentation

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Balances: Manufactured in-house. Up to 6 components for measuring forces and moments from few grams up to 250 kgf.

Balances

Schlieren system: For visualization of flow where density gradients exist.

In the picture – shear layer between helium and air.

Schlieren system

Hot wire anemometer: For high-rate measurements of velocity at a single position.

Hot wire anemometer

PIV: For measurement of a velocity field in a plane.

PIV

Dynamic pressure transducers: for high rate measurement of the pressure at a point.