High-Repetition-Rate Temperature Measurement of Laboratory Combustion Flame Beam Deflection.

Abstract

Details of a method of obtaining time-resolved measurements of gas temperatures in a combustion environment are given. The noncontact optical laser-beam deflection technique uses rapid heating at a gas-solid interface as an acoustic source and is capable of acquiring localized temperature values at a repetition rate of > 1 kHz. Measurements taken on a premixed propane-air laboratory flame show a 12.5-Hz thermal oscillation at the flame edge and no significant oscillation at the center. Two signal-processing approaches are described: 1) digitization and recording of the entire signal and subsequent digital processing, and 2) electronic detection of the signal peak, accompanied by real-time processing of the time difference.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA171471

Entities

People

  • D. F. Grosjean
  • L. P. Goss

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Amplifiers
  • Combustion
  • Data Acquisition
  • Deflection
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Repetition Rate
  • Signal Processing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems