Pressure and Temperature Sensitive Paints - Second Edition

Abstract

The first edition of the book “Pressure and Temperature Sensitive Paints” published by Springer in 2005 summarizes the early development of pressure- and temperature-sensitive paints (PSP and TSP) for aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer measurements. PSP and TSP as global optical techniques are able to provide quantitative high-resolution surface pressure, temperature, and heat-transfer data for complex aerodynamic flows. Since 2005, there has been significant progress with the PSP and TSP techniques, especially with techniques such as time-revolved PSP and TSP measurements in unsteady flows, lifetime-based PSP and TSP measurements on rotating and moving objects, aeroacoustic measurements, and PSP measurements in low-speed, low-pressure, and hypersonic flows. PSP and TSP measurements are now commonly being carried out in various facilities in major aerospace institutions, including subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic facilities, in cryogenic wind tunnels and with rotating machinery. The goal of this second edition is to give an updated, systematic description of PSP and TSP with presentation of new results obtained after 2005. This second edition has 11 chapters and four appendices whose content is summarized in brief below.