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Fluorescence Imaging of Rotational and Vibrational Temperature in a Shock Tunnel Nozzle Flow Philip C. Palma; Paul M. Danehytand A. F. P. Houwing+ The Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia Two-dimensional rotational and vibrational temperature measurements were made at the nozzle exit of a free-piston shock tunnel using Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence. The Mach 7 flow consisted predominantly of nitrogen with a trace quantity of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide was employed as the probe species and was excited at 225 run. Non-uniformities in the distribution of nitric oxide in the test gas were observed, and concluded to be due to contamination of the test gas by driver gas or cold test gas. The nozzle-exit rotational temperature was measured and is in reasonable agreement with computational modelling. Non-linearities in the detection system were responsible for systematic errors in the measurements. The vibrational temperature was measured to be constant with distance from the nozzle exit, indicating it had frozen during the nozzle expansion. Introduction measurement along the line-of-sight through the flow which RUCIAL to the design of future aerospace vehicles is masks any three-dimensional behaviour in the flow. Pla- the accurate prediction of physical and chemical effects nar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) has been widely used C for flow visualisation in subsonic and supersonic flows and influencing the aerodynamics at hypersonic velocit