Applications of Laser Anemometry to Fluid Mechanics

I Single-Phase Flows.- The Energy Budget in the Near-Wall Region of a Turbulent Boundary Layer.- Linear Response of Fluctuating Forces to Turbulent Velocity Components.- Laser Doppler Measurements of Mean Turbulence Quantities, Time- and Spatial-Correlation Coefficients in the Wake of a Circular Cylinder.- Application of LDA to Large Wave Channels.- The Effect of the Forest Canopy on the Separated Flow Over Hills.- A Laser Anemometry Study of Separated Flow Over a Model Three-Dimensional Hill.- Inlet Valve Flow Generated by Helical Ports.- Velocity Measurements in a 5.8 liter Stratified-Charge Rotary Engine.- II Two-Phase Flows.- Resolution Limits of the Phase Doppler Technique and its Extension to Monitor Non-Ideal Fine Particles in Two-Phase Flows.- Calibration of Single Particle Sizing Velocimeters Using Photomask Reticles.- Turbulent Flow Characteristics of Dispersed Two-Phase Flow in Plane Shear Layer.- Application of Phase and Laser Doppler Anemometry to the Measurement of Droplet Size and Velocity in Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Injection Systems.- Measurement of Spray Mist Flow by a Compact Fiber LDV and Doppler-Shift Detector with a Fast DSP.- Back Scattered Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA) for Spray Diagnostics.- Evolution of the Two-Phase Flow in the Near Field of an Air-Blast Atomizer Under Reacting and Non-Reacting Conditions.- Simultaneous Laser-Doppler-Velocimetry and Particle Sizing in the Freeboard of a Fluidized Bed Combustor.- Velocity Measurements of Transparent Non-Newtonian Pipeline Slurries with Laser Doppler Anemometry.- III Instrumentation.- Small Laser-Doppler Anemometers Using Semiconductor Lasers and Avalanche Photodiodes.- Battery-Driven Miniature LDA-System with Semiconductor Laser Diode.- Multipoint Simultaneous LDV Optics.- Fibre Optic TransitVelocimetry Using Diode Laser Sources.- Evaluation of Signal Processing Techniques in Laser Anemometry.- Burst Digital Correlator for LDV Signal Processing.- An Automatic Signal Processor for LDV Systems.- A Covariance Processor for Velocity and Size Measurements.- Processing of Phase-Doppler Signals Using the Cross-Spectral Density Function.- Measurement and Refinement of Velocity Data Using High Image Density Analysis in Particle Image Velocimetry.- Stochastic Modelling and Performance Prediction of PIDV Experiments.- Analysis of Turbulent Shear Flows Using Photochromic Visualization.- List of Contributors.