Using Laser-Based Instrumentation to Give Students Experience in Advanced Instrumentation Technology

The experimental design instrumentations are critical for engineering students to understand the design procedure and its application with hands-on experience.This project objective is to develop the advance experimental design and instrumentation for analysis/experimental validation and an empirical transient model which is for flow in the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) exhaust duct while exposing students to new instrumentation at the same time.The experiments carried out were done on the scale model space shuttle main engine (SSME) exhaust-duct at the Center for Advanced Energy Systems & Environmental Control Technologies (CAESECT) at Morgan State University using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).This scale model is part of NASA's research on the behavior of exhaust flow from the space shuttle while on the launch pad.