On the effects of reactant stratification and wall curvature in non-premixed rotating detonation combustors

V Athmanathan, J Braun, ZM Ayers, CA Fugger… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The optimization of non-premixed rotating detonation combustors (RDCs) requires improved
understanding of the coupled effects of reactant stratification, fluid property gradients, and …

Applications of quantitative laser sensors to kinetics, propulsion and practical energy systems

RK Hanson - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2011 - Elsevier
Laser diagnostic techniques play a large and growing role in combustion research and
development. Here we highlight three areas where quantitative sensing based on laser …

New perspectives on turbulent combustion: multi-parameter high-speed planar laser diagnostics

B Böhm, C Heeger, RL Gordon, A Dreizler - Flow, turbulence and …, 2011 - Springer
Over the past three decades laser combustion diagnostics have guided an improved
understanding of turbulent combustion processes. Until recently, this was based on …

Applications of infrared thermography for studying flows with participating media

DL Blunck - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Infrared thermography can be used to provide useful insights into the characteristics of flows
containing participating media (eg, CO 2, H 2 O vapor, CO, CH 4, etc.). What can make this …

High bandwidth absorption spectroscopy with a dispersed supercontinuum source

J Hult, RS Watt, CF Kaminski - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
An optical gas sensor is presented, making use of a dispersed supercontinuum source,
capable of acquiring broad bandwidth spectra at ultrahigh wavelength sweep and repetition …

kHz-rate four-dimensional fluorescence tomography using an ultraviolet-tunable narrowband burst-mode optical parametric oscillator

BR Halls, PS Hsu, N Jiang, ES Legge, JJ Felver… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Recent work on four-dimensional (4D) tomographic imaging of reacting and non-reacting
flows has utilized fluorescence, incandescence, or scattering from flow tracers, particulates …

OH radical and temperature measurements during ignition of H2-air mixtures excited by a repetitively pulsed nanosecond discharge

Z Yin, IV Adamovich, WR Lempert - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2013 - Elsevier
Ignition delay time, time-resolved temperature, and time-resolved absolute OH concentration
are measured in mildly preheated H2–air mixtures (T= 473–500K), excited by a repetitive …

Ultrahigh-frame-rate OH fluorescence imaging in turbulent flames using a burst-mode optical parametric oscillator

JD Miller, M Slipchenko, TR Meyer, N Jiang… - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
Burst-mode planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) imaging of the OH radical is
demonstrated in laminar and turbulent hydrogen-air diffusion flames with pulse repetition …

Efficient two-dimensional scalar fields reconstruction of laminar flames from infrared hyperspectral measurements with a machine learning approach

T Ren, H Li, MF Modest, C Zhao - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The latest hyperspectral measurements of combustion flames by Rhoby et al.(2014)
provided extensive spatially and spectrally resolved information of flame radiation, which …

Simultaneous measurement of OH radical, H2O concentration, and temperature in a premixed CH4/air flame using TDLAS with an improved analysis method

S So, J Park, M Yoo, J Hwang, D Kim, C Lee - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The OH radical concentration was measured by applying tunable diode laser absorption
spectroscopy, which is an in situ optical method. An optical absorption region (P7. 5ff …