Laser Techniques and Applications in Fluid Mechanics

I - Laser Anemometer Optics and Processing.- A New Method for Directional LDA-Velocity Measurement of Lateral and Axial Components Using Diffraction Gratings.- A Novel Concept in Laser Doppler Velocimetry: The Distributed LDV.- Recent Developments of Fibre Optic Components for LDV Signals.- Processing of a Simulated Differential Doppler-like Signal Using a Fibre-optic-based Multichannel Digital Correlator.- A Multi-Angle Laser-Two-Focus Velocimeter Using Photo Diode Arrays.- II - Two-Phase Flow Instrumentation.- Trajectory Dependent Scattering in Phase Doppler Interferometry: Minimizing and Eliminating Sizing Errors.- Droplet and Particle Sizing Using the Dual-Cylindrical Wave and the Planar Phase Doppler Optical Systems Combined with a Transputer Based Signal Processor.- A Complementary Method for Simultaneous Measurement of Size and Velocity.- Pulse Displacement Technique to Measure Particle Size and Velocity in High Density Applications.- Size-Discriminated Velocity Cross-Correlation Measured by a Single Channel Phase Doppler Velocimeter.- A New Laser Grating Velocimeter-Granulometer for Highly Concentrated Wet Steam Flows.- III - Whole Field Velocimetry.- Transition from Particle Image Velocimetry to Laser Speckle Velocimetry with Increasing Seeding Density.- Neural Net for Recognition of Trajectories in a Flow.- Data Validation for Particle Image Velocimetry.- Processing Speed of Photorefractive Optical Correlators in PIV-Processing.- PIV Measurements of Turbulent and Chaotic Structures in a Rotating Flow Using an Optical Correlator.- Observations on the Near Wake of a Yawed Circular Cylinder.- Measurements with Particle Image Velocimetry on Fully Developed Turbulent Pipe Flow at Low Reynolds Number.- IV - Complex-Flows Applications.- LDV Measurements in aPlane Wall Jet in a Large Enclosure.- Measurements of Flow Mechanism in Fluidic Gas Meters by LDV.- Three Component Doppler Global Velocimeter Measurements of the Flow Above a Delta Wing.- Phase-Coupled LDV and Plezo-Array Measurements in Unsteady Flows.- Measurements of Flow Around Marine Propellers.- Flow Around a Surface-Mounted Cube.- Mie Scattering and Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Scalar Mixing in Compressible Free Shear Layers.- Visualization of Organized Structures in Compressible Turbulent Flow by Holographic Interferometry.- V - Engine and Combusting Flows.- Laminar Spray Combustion.- LDA Measurements of Velocity and Turbulent Transport Processes in a 150 KW Baffle-Stabilized Swirling Flame.- Application of a Phase Doppler Anemometer to a Spray Impinging on a Disc.- Phase Doppler Anemometry Measurements on a Gasoline Spray Inside the Inlet Port and Downstream of the Induction Valve; Steady and Unsteady Flow Conditions.- Velocity Measurements in the End-Gas Region During Homogeneous-Charge Combustion in a Spark Ignition Engine.