Two-dimensional imaging of soot volume fraction in laminar diffusion flames

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2478-2485

  Snelling, David R ^a   Thomson, Kevin A ^a,b   Smallwood, Gregory J ^a   Gulder L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC LAMPS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FLAME RESEARCH; LAMINAR FLOW; LASER BEAMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOOT; VOLUME FRACTION;

BEAM STEERING;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032613699     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002478     Document Type: Article

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