Instrumentation for Turbulent Reacting Flows

Abstract

The design and technical capabilities of the following systems are described: (1) Copper Vapor Laser pulsed light source with spatial filter and collimator.(2) Proximity focussed diode intensified linear CCD camera. (3) High speed multiplexed Analog to Digital Conversion system. (4) Monochromator system for point or line imaging of chemiluminescence. This instrumentation has been assembled to exploit several nonintrusive optical techniques to make measurements in a wide range of turbulent flows. The primary, but not exclusive, measurement technique to be implemented was Rayleigh scattering, imaged along a line as a function of time. A slightly modified version of the same apparatus was to be used in performing scattering measurements or (liquid-phase) laser- induced fluorescence measurements with the same temporal and spatial resolution capabilities. A second technique was to make use of a monochromator to analyze, and possibly image, chemiluminescence in a reacting flow in a wavelength- specific fashion, either at a point or along a line. The light source, the detection systems, and the data acquisition systems assembled under this funding will each be described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 23, 1987
Accession Number
ADA191671

Entities

People

  • D. B. Lang
  • P. E. Dimotakis
  • R. C. Miake-lye

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Copper Vapor Lasers
  • Diffraction
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Reynolds Number
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy