Laser propagation in aircraft wakes

Alan R. Shapiro

doi:10.1117/12.163698

2 December 1993 Laser propagation in aircraft wakes

Alan R. Shapiro

Proceedings Volume 2005, Optical Diagnostics in Fluid and Thermal Flow; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.163698
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The use of lasers aboard aircraft is affected by the perturbed airflow in its vicinity. Therefore, an ability to predict the structure of aircraft-induced turbulence would be useful in system and performance analysis. PSR performed temperature and velocity fluctuation measurements in the wakes of an NRA-3B and a B-1B at trail distances of 50 to 5500 m, at two Mach numbers (0.5 and 0.75) and at two altitudes (0.9 and 6 km). Preliminary analysis of the data suggested significant differences with the predictions of the computational fluid dynamics code (CFD) WAKE developed for this application by ARAP for U.S. Air Force. These differences impact laser propagation. The principal difference between the data and the CFD predictions is that the temperature fluctuations which determine C²_N are not isotropic and exhibit spectra and correlation scales which differ greatly from those of velocity. This paper reports the development of a hypothesis concerning the source of this temperature structure in aircraft wakes. Modifications to CFD models are suggested.

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Alan R. Shapiro "Laser propagation in aircraft wakes", Proc. SPIE 2005, Optical Diagnostics in Fluid and Thermal Flow, (2 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.163698

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