Laser ignition of methane-air mixtures at high pressures and diagnostics

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 213-219

  Kopecek, Herbert ^a   Charareh, Soren ^a   Lackner, Maximilian ^a   Forsich, Christian ^a   Winter, Franz ^a   Klausner, Johann ^b   Herdin, Günther ^b   Weinrotter, Martin ^a   Wintner, Ernst ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GE Jenbacher   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; IGNITION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; MIXTURES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; VISCOSITY;

FLAME EMISSION; LASER IGNITION; LASER PULSE ENERGY; METHANE-AIR MIXTURES;

METHANE;

IGNITION;

EID: 14944368654     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1805550     Document Type: Article

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