Establishment of a confined swirling natural gas/air flame as a standard flame: Temperature and species distributions from laser Raman measurements

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 174, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 117-151

  Keck, O ^a   Meier, W ^a   Stricker, W ^a   Aigner, M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Raman scattering; Swirl; Turbulence chemistry interaction; Turbulent diffusion flame

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; FLAME RESEARCH; GAS BURNERS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NATURAL GAS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SWIRLING FLOW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AIR FLAME; INDUSTRIAL BURNER; LASER RAMAN MEASUREMENTS; THERMAL POWERS; TURBULENT SWIRLING FLAMES;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 0346973145     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713713067     Document Type: Article

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