Concept of similarity and design of experiments – Measurement uncertainty – Design of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, and high enthalpy test facilities – Transducers and their response characteristics – Measurement of pressure, temperature, velocity, forces, moments, and dynamic sta- bility derivatives – Flow visualization techniques: Optical measurement techniques, refractive index based measurements, scattering based measurements – Data acquisition and signal conditioning – Signal and image processing.
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