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ELORET's experimental fluids researchers have decades of experience developing and using NASA's most advanced facilities, measurement techniques, and methods of analysis to address many demanding flow problems. Expertise and help are available in:

Flow Problems

• turbulence and transition
• adverse pressure gradients and boundary layer separation
• shock-wave boundary-layer interactions
• free shear layers
• boundary layer reattachment and recovery
• wakes, jets, and plumes
• two-phase flows
• oscillating and swirling flows
• curvature effects

Facilities

• subsonic, transonic, and supersonic wind tunnels
• hypersonic wind tunnels
• ballistic ranges
• ram accelerators
• shock tubes and tunnels, expansion tubes
• arcjets
• stellerators and ion thrusters
• large space chambers with cryopumping

Flow Measurement and Visualization Techniques

• laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV)
• hot- and cold-wire anemometry
• laser interferometric skin friction (LISF)
• planar laser scattering
• single- and multi-hole pressure probes
• high-frequency pressure transducers
• force balances
• Schlieren and shadowgraph

Methods of Analysis

• Fourier transform analyses
• space-time correlations
• large-structure detection
• convolutions