Combustion is a reactive oxidation process that releases energy bound in chemical
compounds used as fuels─ energy that is needed for power generation, transportation …

Sensors are perhaps the most important and integral components of our modern society.
With global warming and environmental pollution garnering ever-increasing attention, as …

Many practical soot-emitting combustion systems such as diesel and jet engines rely on
diffusion flames for efficient and reliable operation. Efforts to mitigate soot emissions from …

Soot is responsible for notoriously detrimental effects on human health, air quality, and
global and regional climate. Controlling soot emissions to the atmosphere will require …

Optical diagnostics for fluid temperature measurements continue to further our
understanding of flows involving heat transfer and/or chemical reactions, which are intrinsic …

Sprays are among the most intellectually challenging and practically important topics in fluid
mechanics. This paper reviews needs, milestones, challenges, and a broad array of …

Laser absorption spectroscopy (LAS) has been rapidly developed and widely applied to
combustion diagnosis in recent decades. As a cost-effective tool for measuring multiple …

Combustion is directly related to energy conversion and the environment. Gas-phase
chemical reactions such as thermal decomposition, oxidation and recombination play a …

Abstract Rhodamine 6G (R6G), also known as Rhodamine 590, is one of the most frequently
used dyes for application in dye lasers and as a fluorescence tracer, eg, in the area of …

Recent work on four-dimensional (4D) tomographic imaging of reacting and non-reacting
flows has utilized fluorescence, incandescence, or scattering from flow tracers, particulates …