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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2016
The application of optical imaging techniques tohypersonic facilities is discussed and examples ofexperimental measurements are provided. TraditionalSchlieren and shadowgraph techniques still remain asinexpensive and easy to use flow visualisationtechniques. With the advent of faster cameras, thesemethods are becoming increasingly important fortime-resolved high-speed imaging. Interferometry’squantitative nature is regularly used to obtaindensity information about hypersonic flows. Recentdevelopments have seen an extension of the types offlows that can be imaged and the measurement ofother flow parameters such as ionisation level.Planar laser induced fluorescence has been used tovisualise complex flows and to measure suchquantities as temperature and velocity. Futuredirections for optical imaging are discussed.