Photon Correlation Techniques in Fluid Mechanics

Introductory Survey.- 1. High-Resolution Intensity Interferometry by Photon Correlation.- 1 Photon Correlation Velocimetry: Assessment of Methods and Selected Examples of Technical Applications.- 2. Theoretical Aspects of Photon Correlation Methods in Doppler-Difference Anemometry.- 3. Velocimetry Signals and Data Reduction in Simulation and Practice.- 4. Examples of the Data Reduction of Photon Correlation Laser Doppler Anemometer Autocorrelation Functions Using Fourier Transforms.- 5. A Characterization of the Near Field of a Two-Dimensional Wake by Photon Correlation.- 6. Experimental Investigation of the Turbulent Boundary Layer Associated with Mixed, Free and Forced Convection Inside a Vertical Cylinder.- 7. Turbulence Measurements in an Ejector Wing Flow Field.- 8. Long-Range Laser Velocimetry with Particular Emphasis to the Visible Domain.- 9. Comparison of LDA Signal Strength in Photon Correlograms Obtained by CW and Pulsed Laser Operation.- 10. Laser Doppler Measurements of Wind Velocities Using Visible Radiation.- 11. The Use of Laser Velocimetry in the Full-Scale Ship's Environment.- 12. Wake Measurements by Laser Doppler Velocimetry on Full-Scale Ships.- 13. Turbulent Engine Flow Measurements Using LDA with Correlator.- 14. Particle Statistics in Laser Transit Velocimetry.- 15. Base Flow Measurements in a Transonic Cascade Using a Laser Transit Anemometer.- 16. Measurements in Turbomachines Using Two-Spot Anemometry.- 17. A Scaling Law for Performance Evaluation of a Laser Time-of-Flight Velocimeter.- 18. Flow Measurements with a 5 ns Correlator.- 19. Velocity, Turbulence, and Shear Stress From Laser Transit Anemometer Correlograms.- 20. The Laser Gradient Anemometer.- 21. The Application of Cross-Correlation Measurements to the Determination of VelocityGradients in Fluid Flow.- 2 Correlation Techniques: Methodical Advances and Applications to Signal Types Other than Photons.- 22. Rate Correlation and Data Preprocessing with Digital Correlators and Structurators.- 23. Statistical Stability of Clipped Photon Correlations in the Self-Scaling Limit.- 24. Hardware and Software Implementation of On-Line Velocity Correlation Measurements in Oscillatory and Turbulent Rotational Couette Flow.- 25. A Study of a Propane Flame as a Deep Phase Screen.- 26. Dynamic Correlation on a Schlieren Image in a Transonic Airflow.- 27. Phase and Phase-Difference Statistics of Turbulent Thermal Convection in Air.- 3 Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Brownian Motion: Polydispersity Analysis and Studies of Particle Dynamics.- 28. Data Reduction in Polydisperse Diffusion Studies.- 29. On the Extraction of Polydispersity Information in Photon Correlation Spectroscopy.- 30. Correlation Function Profile Analysis in Laser Light Scattering. III An Iterative Procedure.- 31. A Solution of an Ill-Posed Inverse Problem: Approximation of Polydisperse Scattering Data as a Sum of Many Exponential (Lorentzian) Curves.- 32. A General-Purpose Constrained Regularization Method for Inverting Photon Correlation Data.- 33. Analysis and Resolution of Polydisperse Systems.- 34. The Dynamics of Interacting Brownian Particles.- 35. Dynamics of Na+-Polystyrene Sulfonate in Solution at Low Ionic Strength.- 36. A Photon Correlation Study of the Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Colloidal Systems: Colloidal Liquids and Colloidal Crystals.- 37. Dynamic Properties of Silica Dispersions in Cyclohexane.- 38. The Application of Number Fluctuation Spectroscopy to Aggregating Systems and the Measurement of Rotational (Anti-)Correlation Functions of Low-Order Aggregates.- 39. AStudy of Fibrin Polymerization Combining Static and Dynamic Light Scattering with the Measurement of Fibrinopeptide Release.- 40. Quasielastic Light-Scattering Study of Mixed Micelles.- 41. Measuring Thermal Diffusivities Using Two Photomultipliers in Cross-Correlation.- 42. Multiple Rayleigh-Gans-Debye Light Scattering in Colloidal Systems.- 43. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Solutions.- Index of Contributors.