Advanced Diagnostics for Reacting Flows

Abstract

Progress is reported for an interdisciplinary program aimed at establishing advanced optical diagnostic techniques applicable to combustion and plasma flows. The primary effort is on digital flowfield imaging techniques, which offer significant potential for a wide range of spatially resolved 2-d and 3-d measurements. The imaging is accomplished by recording light scattered from a planar laser-illuminated region using a modern solid-state camera. The scattering process is generally laser-induced fluorescence, though Mie, Rayleigh and Raman scattering may also be used. Activities reported include: 1)image processing of PLIF data; 2) PLIF imaging in nonequilibrium shock tube flows; 3) temperature and velocity imaging in supersonic flows; 4) concept for simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters; 5) digital camera for high- speed imaging; 6) plasma diagnostics; 7) laser photolysis shock tube; and 8) cw UV laser absorption diagnostics. Keywords: Two-dimensional three-dimensional flow; Laser applications; Light scattering; PLIF(Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence); Continuous-wave ultraviolet laser absorption; Optical measurements data; High temperature gas dynamics. (EDC)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 12, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214795

Entities

People

  • Ronald Kenneth Hanson

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Dye Lasers
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Image Processing
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Liquid Dye Lasers
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Plasma Diagnostics
  • Supersonic Flow
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Ultraviolet Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow