Three-dimensional laser interferometric CT (LICT) measurement of shock wave interaction around a circular cylinder

摘要

Three-dimensional (3-D) laser interferometric computed tomography (LICT) measurement has been applied to high-speed and unsteady flow including shock waves. The purpose of our investigation is to clarify 3-D flow phenomena quantitatively by using LICT. We used a diaphragm-less shock tube to clarify the unsteady shock wave behavior with the shot by shot method. The diaphragm-less shock tube enables us to obtain shock wave propagation reproduction in quick succession. By LICT the 3-D internal density structure of the shock-vortex flow field can be clarified. In this LICT method the observation system consists of a CCD camera, Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and nitrogen pulse laser as a light source with a suitable delay signal controller. The 3-D density CT data can be reconstructed typically from the 19 2-D density images which have a 5° interval among every shot of the diaphragm-less shock tube. As for the method to get many projection images, the optical system is fixed, while the model with a cylindrical duct and a cylinder is rotated by a fixed degree of intervals in the designated observation angle for every shot. In this paper the shock wave interaction with a finite length circular cylinder is observed by LICT measurement. For reconstruction of density distribution the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART) is applied to reduce the artifact, together with precise observation.