Quantitative density measurement of wake region behind reentry capsule (Improvements in accuracy of 3D reconstruction by evaluating the view-angle of measurement system)

Abstract

Three-dimensional density measurement of unsteady flow field around a projectile (φ = 8mm) is carried out in the ballistic range at Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University. The purpose of this study is to obtain the density distribution including its wake region in non-axisymmetric unsteady flow. The projectile’s Mach number in the experiment is 1.35. Simultaneous multi-angle BOS measurement system using twelve digital cameras and pulsed LEDs is installed in the test chamber of the ballistic range. The Color-Grid Background Oriented Schlieren (CGBOS) technique is used in the measurement system to obtain the projection data of density gradient. Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) method and Successive Over Relaxation (SOR) method are used to obtain the density distribution from projection data. To improve the accuracy of 3D reconstruction, we evaluate the view-angle of the measurement system in the present study. The result shows that the bow shock, expansion wave and recirculation zone can be confirmed by the proposed method. However, bow shock in each method are thicker than the schlieren image due to the blur of the CGBOS images. Even then, the 3D shape of density distribution reconstructed by proposed method can be reliable, and the relative error of obtained density between the theoretical value for normal shock relation is about 5% at the bow shock.

Keywords

• background oriented schlieren(bos)
• flow visualization
• high speed flows
• unsteady flow
• simultaneous measurement
• view-angle
• ballistic range