“…A large number of optical interferometric methods exist, such as classical interferometry [6,7], holographic interferometry [8][9][10], speckle photography [11,12], shearing interferometry [13,14], moire deflectometry [15], speckle shearing interferometry [16], Talbot interferometry [17,18], and Lau phase interferometry [19,20]. Recently, digital holographic interferometry (DHI) has been investigated for the measurement of the temperature and temperature profiles of gaseous flames and heated objects [21][22][23][24][25][26]. DHI is expected to provide a more accurate value of the local convective heat transfer coefficient (h) as the temperature gradient required for the calculation of "h" can be obtained more accurately than by other existing optical interferometric techniques.…”