Flow visualization in supersonic ejectors using laser tomography techniques

This paper presents flow imaging techniques developed for investigating flow in ejectors. These visualization techniques use the laser sheet method but differ from each other by the kind of the illumination source, the polarization direction of the incident light and the type of the scattering tracers. Each of these methods enables the visualization of specific phenomena (shock structure, flow instabilities, mixing process). Although the flow visualizations are primarily qualitative, they allow the determination of the flow regime, the measurement of the non-mixing length, can indicate suggestions for the design of ejectors and provide the possibility to validate numerical simulations.