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Flow Measurements Behind the Plane Window: Off-axis

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The simplest case for internal flow measurements is the on-axis alignment of LDA optics, as this has been shown in the last chapter. There are other cases in which the LDA optics has to be aligned off-axis, i.e. the optical axis is no more perpendicular to the window plane.

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Zhang, Z. (2010). Flow Measurements Behind the Plane Window: Off-axis. In: LDA Application Methods. Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13514-9_14

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