Syllabus

Introduction configuration of an experimental set-up-error-calibration – uncertainty analysis, er- ror propagation formula, analysis of scatter, design of experiments based on uncertainty – re- view of probes and transducers – integral measurements of volume, velocity and temperature – introduction to wind tunnels, open and closed circuit tunnels – optical instrumentation, lasers and coherent optics, refractive index variation in transparent media, interferometry, schlieren and shadowgraph methods, analysis of interferograms, Rayleigh scattering technique – tran- sient response and instruments – zeroth, first and second order systems – treatment of spatially distributed variables – compensation and recovery of original signals from measured data – computerized data acquisition.