Volumetric emission tomography for combustion processes

SJ Grauer, K Mohri, T Yu, H Liu, W Cai - Progress in energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This is a comprehensive, critical, and pedagogical review of volumetric emission
tomography for combustion processes. Many flames that are of interest to scientists and …

Tomographic absorption spectroscopy for the study of gas dynamics and reactive flows

W Cai, CF Kaminski - Progress in energy and combustion science, 2017 - Elsevier
Optical imaging techniques are ubiquitous for the resolution of non-uniformities in gas flows.
Planar imaging techniques such as laser-induced fluorescence are well established and …

High-speed, three-dimensional tomographic laser-induced incandescence imaging of soot volume fraction in turbulent flames

TR Meyer, BR Halls, N Jiang, MN Slipchenko, S Roy… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
High-speed, laser-based tomographic imaging of the three-dimensional time evolution of
soot volume fraction in turbulent jet diffusion flames is demonstrated to be feasible at rates of …

Advanced laser-based techniques for gas-phase diagnostics in combustion and aerospace engineering

A Ehn, J Zhu, X Li, J Kiefer - Applied spectroscopy, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Gaining information of species, temperature, and velocity distributions in turbulent
combustion and high-speed reactive flows is challenging, particularly for conducting …

Two-color volumetric laser-induced fluorescence for 3D OH and temperature fields in turbulent reacting flows

BR Halls, PS Hsu, S Roy, TR Meyer, JR Gord - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Single-shot, two-color, volumetric laser-induced fluorescence was demonstrated for three-
dimensional (3D), tomographic imaging of the structural properties of the OH radical and …

From ignition to stable combustion in a cavity flameholder studied via 3D tomographic chemiluminescence at 20 kHz

L Ma, Q Lei, Y Wu, W Xu, TM Ombrello, CD Carter - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
This work reports the study of the ignition processes in a Mach-2 cavity combustor based on
three-dimensional (3D) measurements at 20 kHz. The 3D measurements were obtained by …

Single-shot 3D flame diagnostic based on volumetric laser induced fluorescence (VLIF)

L Ma, Q Lei, J Ikeda, W Xu, Y Wu, CD Carter - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - Elsevier
We demonstrate single-shot three-dimensional (3D) flame measurements based on
volumetric laser-induced fluorescence (VLIF). For this effort, the excitation laser beam was …

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 …

Benchmark evaluation of inversion algorithms for tomographic absorption spectroscopy

T Yu, W Cai - Applied optics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Tomographic absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is experiencing a surge of interest due to
recent progress in laser technology and advanced imaging concepts such as nonlinear …

Capabilities and limitations of 3D flame measurements based on computed tomography of chemiluminescence

X Li, L Ma - Combustion and Flame, 2015 - Elsevier
This work investigated the fundamental capabilities and limitations of three-dimensional
(3D) combustion measurements based on computed tomography of chemiluminescence …