The application of digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) to transonic flows

Abstract The paper is an extension to earlier PIV work published in Progress in Aerospace Science Vol. 27, pp237–265. 1990. DPIV (Digital Particle Image Velocimetry) measurements have been made at transonic speeds using a new method of both digitally capturing and visualising high speed flow-fields. It has provided a quantitative whole field image of the transonic flow. The area of interest for this test was of the wing/pylon/nacelle/inboard gully region of a 5.7% scale model wing and engine combination. The measurements show velocity and flow angle changes in this region, to a measurement accuracy of 4%, made at an optical stand off distance of 0.5 m.