Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
During a break in testing Nov. 18, 2021, Dr. Tom Jenkins, center, president of MetroLaser, Inc., explains to Dr. David Mayo, with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, how the cameras are adjusted to best capture the particulates of exhaust from an aircraft engine at the Propulsion Research Facility operated by Arnold Engineering Development Complex at the University of Tennessee......
Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
Dr. Tom Jenkins, left, president of MetroLaser, Inc., explains to Dr. David Mayo, with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, how the cameras are adjusted to best capture the particulates of exhaust from an aircraft engine as they are influenced by a laser field in order to create a 3D model of the velocity of the exhaust during a break in testing of the measurement system Nov. 18,......
Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
MetroLaser, Inc., uses the J85 engine, seen here, at the University of Tennessee Space Institute’s Propulsion Research Facility near Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., to study its three-component planar Doppler velocimetry, or PDV, measurement system for optical, non-intrusive measurements of exhaust gas velocity Nov. 18, 2021. Through a Small Business Innovative Research contract awarded to......
Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
MetroLaser, Inc., uses the General Electric J85 engine, seen here, at the University of Tennessee Space Institute’s Propulsion Research Facility near Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., to study its three-component planar Doppler velocimetry, or PDV, measurement system for optical, non-intrusive measurements of exhaust gas velocity Nov. 18, 2021. Through a Small Business Innovative Research......
Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
Dr. David Mayo, right, a mechanical engineer with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division; Dr. Tom Jenkins, center, president of MetroLaser, Inc.; and Regis Morgan, senior engineer with MetroLaser, monitor data during a test of the company's setup to non-invasively measure the unsteady, 3D velocity field of a jet plume from a stationary aircraft engine, Nov. 18, 2021, at the Propulsion......
Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
In order to non-invasively measure the unsteady, 3D velocity field of a jet plume from a stationary aircraft engine, Nov. 18, 2021, a laser beam is redirected and spread into a wider plane as it crosses behind the engine at the Propulsion Research Facility operated by Arnold Engineering Development Complex on the campus of the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tenn. Cameras......
Photo by Jill Pickett | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 11.18.2021
From left, Dr. Tom Jenkins, president of MetroLaser, Inc., and Regis Morgan, senior engineer with MetroLaser, observe the visual display of data during a test of the company's setup to non-invasively measure the unsteady, 3D velocity field of a jet plume from a stationary aircraft engine, Nov. 18, 2021, at the Propulsion Research Facility operated by Arnold Engineering Development Complex on......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Ave Young | 12th Flying Training Wing | 05.08.2017
Dave Duggar, propulsion shop supervisor, receives an update on one of the J-85 engines from one of his team members inside Hangar 5 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, May 8, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Ave I. Young)...