New developments in the laser-2-focus technique for non-intrusive velocity measurements in gasturbine components

(Received 13 May 1991, accepted 23 September 1991)

Abstract
Further improvement of aircraft engines with respect to fuel consumption and emission reduction requires costly and difficult investigations which are impossible without modern measuring techniques. The Institute of Propulsion Technology is primarily concerned with investigations on turbomachinery components (e.g. compressors, combustors, turbines), where very often extremely difficult conditions prevail (high flow velocities, complex geometries, rotating flow channels). For this reason non-intrusive measuring techniques play an important role. The Laser-2-Focus technique for non-intrusive velocity measurements developed in the institute has won high regard worldwide. Developments in optics and electronics have resulted in this technique having a considerably greater area of application.