Optical particle characterization in flows

C Tropea - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Particle characterization in dispersed multiphase flows is important in quantifying transport
processes both in fundamental and applied research: Examples include atomization and …

An investigation on spray cooling using saline water with experimental verification

MH Sadafi, SG Ruiz, MR Vetrano, I Jahn… - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
A natural draft dry cooling tower rejects heat in a power plant. Spray cooling of the inlet air to
the cooling tower improves the total efficiency of the power plant. To overcome the scarcity of …

Phase rainbow refractometry for accurate droplet variation characterization

Y Wu, J Promvongsa, S Saengkaew, X Wu, J Chen… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We developed a one-dimensional phase rainbow refractometer for the accurate trans-
dimensional measurements of droplet size on the micrometer scale as well as the tiny …

Combined three-color LIF-PDA measurements and infrared thermography applied to the study of the spray impingement on a heated surface above the Leidenfrost …

A Labergue, JD Pena-Carillo, M Gradeck… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This experimental study deals with the impingement of sprays on a heated wall in close to
semi-industrial conditions. Therefore, an experimental set-up was specifically designed …

Study of the droplet size effect coupled with the laser light scattering in sprays for two-color LIF thermometry measurements

A Labergue, A Delconte, G Castanet, F Lemoine - Experiments in fluids, 2012 - Springer
The present paper deals with a new optical diagnostic that aims to perform droplet
temperature measurements based on the two-color laser-induced fluorescence (2cLIF). The …

One-dimensional rainbow technique using Fourier domain filtering

Y Wu, J Promvongsa, X Wu, K Cen, G Grehan… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Rainbow refractometry can measure the refractive index and the size of a droplet
simultaneously. The refractive index measurement is extracted from the absolute rainbow …

New insight into two-color LIF thermometry applied to temperature measurements of droplets

A Labergue, V Deprédurand, A Delconte… - Experiments in …, 2010 - Springer
When laser-induced fluorescence of droplets is used for measurements such as droplet
temperature, a new dependence of the droplet size on the spectral distribution of …

Mass transfer evolution in a reactive spray during carbon dioxide capture

M Ouboukhlik, G Godard, S Saengkaew… - Chemical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In view of global warming, improvement of CO2 capture efficiency in addition to carbon
valorization has become a major concern. In the last decade, post‐combustion capture …

Dynamics and thermal behaviour of water sprays

A Collin, P Boulet, G Parent, MR Vetrano… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
A detailed study (dynamics, thermal and radiative transfer) concerning a single water spray
is presented. It is based on comparisons between experimental and numerical results. The …

Concentration and composition measurement of sprays with a global rainbow technique

X Wu, Y Wu, S Saengkaew… - Measurement …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Applications of the global rainbow technique to measure the concentration of a sprayed bi-
component solution or the composition and the relative proportions of two sprays of different …