On the unsteady development of the flow under transonic Buffet conditions: Experimental study of the interaction of shock and pressure waves using PIV and Schlieren visualization

This thesis presents an experimental study of the unsteady phenomenon known as transonic buffet. Completely developed in the High Speed Lab of the Aerospace Faculty at TU Delft (The Netherlands), the experiments were conducted in the transonic/supersonic wind tunnel TST-27. In order to achieve time and spatial resolution of the phenomenon, high...