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Applications of 2-D Moiré Deflectometry to Atmospheric Turbulence
Author(s) -
Saifollah Rasouli,
Yasser Rajabi,
A. Panahi,
Joseph Niemela,
J Niemela,
D Acton,
R Sharbaugh,
J Roehrig,
D Tiszauer,
I Arad,
B Dhruva,
S Kurien,
V,
I Procaccia,
K Sreenivasan,
M Dashti,
S Rasouli,
B Castaing,
Y Gagne,
E Hopfinger,
D Dayton,
B Pierson,
B Spielbusch,
J Gonglewski,
D Fried,
D Fried,
D Fried,
J Gladstone,
T Dale,
N Hutchins,
T Nickels,
I Marusic,
M Chong,
Keren,
E,
O Kafri,
I Lekakis,
J Maurer,
P Tabeling,
G Zocchi,
R Miles,
W Lempert,
B Zhang,
T Nicholls,
G Boreman,
J Dainty,
A Noullez,
G Wallace,
W Lempert,
R Miles,
U Frisch,
K Patorski,
S Rasouli,
S Rasouli,
S Rasouli,
M Dashti,
A Ramaprakash,
S Rasouli,
M Tavassoly,
S Rasouli,
M Tavassoly,
L Rayleigh,
M Sarazin,
F Roddier,
E Silbaugh,
B Welsh,
M Roggemann,
H Talbot,
R Volk,
E Calzavarini,
G Verhille,
D Lohse,
N Mordant,
J Pinton,
F Toschi,
R Volk,
N Mordant,
G Verhille,
J Pinton
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied fluid mechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.469
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1735-3645
pISSN - 1735-3572
DOI - 10.36884/jafm.7.04.21420
Subject(s) - atmospheric turbulence , turbulence , moiré pattern , optics , environmental science , materials science , physics , meteorology
We report on applications of a moiré deflectometry to observations of anisotropy in the statistical properties of atmospheric turbulence. Specifically, combining the use of a telescope with moiré deflectometry allows enhanced sensitivity to fluctuations in the wave-front phase, which reflect fluctuations in the fluid density. Such phase fluctuations in the aperture of the telescope are imaged on the first grating of the moiré deflectometer, giving high spatial resolution. In particular, we have measured the covariance of the angle of arrival (AA) between pairs of points displaced spatially on the telescope aperture which allows a quantitative measure of anisotropy in the atmospheric surface layer. Importantly, the telescope-based moiré deflectometry measures directly in the spatial domain and, besides being a non-intrusive method for studying turbulent flows, has the advantage of being relatively simple and inexpensive.

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